Day 5

Morning: The Vegetable Garden

After our usual routine of feeding the chickens and having breakfast, we headed out with Brenda and Lisa to the vegetable garden, armed with shovels, trowels a couple carts and a bunch of energy we got to work. We laid down newspaper and hay on top along all the pathways. This prevents weeds from shooting up in the pathways during the growing season. We turned over a vegetable patch and did some weeding. Since Shane wasn't around to carry a hay bail over to the garden with the tractor, we had to cart it over from the side of the barn, which really increased the workload. Around 12:30 we took a break for lunch to recuperate before our next task.

Afternoon: Rhubarb Patch and Memorial Garden

We Started the afternoon off by mulching and weeding the rhubarb patch which is also connected to the tree nursery and the black crescent bushes. We started to dig up a new area to expand the tree nursery but we didn't finish it due to lack of time. We went over to help Shanta with her memorial garden for her husband. We added mulch around all the trees and along the pathways. It looked a lot neater after all the mulch was put down. We headed in around five to get ready to go into Erin, a small town nearby where Brenda was donating some plants from the community garden. It felt so nice to take a shower after a long days work, and I felt the cleanest I've been in years!