Fencing and planting

Hey everybody,

it's been awhile since our last post, as we've been extremely busy. Our fence is finally here and in the ground. It was installed on Wednesday/Thursday of last week, and the finishing touches (reinforcements with smaller mesh for the bottom, and gates) will be here tomorrow morning. The smaller mesh is necessary as we had our first critter culprit sneak in through the mesh of the fence and eat some of our broccoli plants (see photo album).

However, the fence will be fully functional tomorrow, and that means it's been a lot of planting. Since our last post, we have finished planting our tomatoes, our hot peppers, and have also planted beds with carrots, corn, radishes, and chives. We are starting to see the first signs of actually having produce in the near future. The plants are flowering and some of the tomatoes already have little fruits on them, which is really exciting

We also have installed rain barrels off the corners of Newell 4 as our first step towards having an irrigation system. We have ordered a pump that we can put into payne creek for an additional source of water.

The goal is to continue planting these next few days until everything is in the ground. We just received the last of our seeds this afternoon, so priority will be given to planting the most time sensitive things first. Be sure to keep posted and to check out the photo albums as their will be many many pictures along the way.

Rob and Stacey