April showers bring May... vegetable seedlings

This is a direct continuation of our autumn posting. Our backyard transformation project picked up again in February, when there was still a foot of snow on the ground. We ordered seeds. Lots of them. We tried to make a plan.

Brian built a small greenhouse out of reused wood.

We traded a day's use of a chainsaw for a plate of fresh brownies.

Erin was skeptical.

Erin was happy that there were no trips to the emergency room.

Erin moved the herb spiral from where Brian put it in October; Wendell approved.

We started painting the pickets and building a small fence to separate the garden from the yard (paint is recycled from household drop-offs).

An impromptu project: rebuilding the retaining wall beside the garage (formerly collapsed and full of concrete).

That large bottom branch, dangerously close to the power line (and stealing sunlight from the garden once its leaves arrive)? Gone - we called in a professional (not Brian).

Paths are lined with wood shavings from the shop where Brian took a woodworking course this winter; Erin plants the first outdoor veggies.

Veggies are up (if we didn't mention it previously, we're well aware that we're in over our heads with the 50+ varieties; we read somewhere that if you're starting a garden, take what you think you need, then halve it, then halve it again; we've sort of done the inverse).

As of today, here's where we're at (today / last summer).