I am always impressed by how beautiful the wild azaleas are. We have them in white and pink and combinations thereof.
The azaleas and the dogwoods really catch your attention but the tiny wild flowers at your feet are just as pretty. Here we have Bird's Foot Violet, Yellow Violet, Dwarf Iris, and Trillium. This year, there was more Trillium than I have ever noticed before.
Carolyn made this lovely Easter table decoration with an arrangement of Bluets and moss along with her hand-painted eggs.
The garden space enclosure is three times the size of last year's. Let me tell you that driving T-posts is not among my favorite things to do. Still, I managed to get it done in just a few days. I explained the 3D deer fence in the March 2020 post Beware the Ides of March.
The garden really had to be larger to accommodate the larger number of varieties we wanted to try this year. Among the new crops are: Cabbage, Broccoli, Sweet Peas, Winter Squash, Red Onion, Tomatillo - just to name a few.
I don't have pictures to include here but we are attempting to root Redbud, Coosa Dogwood, and Yates Apple trees.
As hinted in the previous post, I have actually begun work on what will become a new flush toilet system. Here is where the "septic tank" will be located. This will not be a traditional septic system. Instead of relying on anaerobic bacteria to break down solids, I will employ thousands of red wiggler worms to do this in an aerobic environment. Liquid will rapidly filter through a few hundred pounds of wood chips and exit the tank into a "greenfilter" bed filled with nitrogen-loving plants. You can read all about this system here: http://www.vermicompostingtoilets.net/
Next step is to lay cinder block on the concrete pad I just poured then back fill three sides leaving an access point for maintenance on the downhill side.
