The Garden in Spring

I know that it has been a while since I updated everyone on what has been going on.  We have been going crazy!  Mister and I have been working in our garden; tilling the soil, pulling weeds that survived the cold, and we had to reinforce the potato bin.  

 

Let's start with the potato bin...we started out just like the other parts of the garden with a raised bed, however, as the plant grows we must mound more dirt on top of the plant to keep it growing.  Well, I am not sure what kind of soil we have.  I KNOW we didn't use any kind of chemicals on our garden and still those plants grew to be about four feet tall!  Mister added side walls to the potato bin and they just kept growing.

The walls started to bow and since we didn't empty the potato bin of the extra dirt we had a problem.  We had to  take out about a ton of dirt and reinforce the bin walls so that they will not bow again.  In doing so Mister also gives the bed little seats.  Anyone who has ever dug a potato bed knows that this is tiring and tedious work.  Not to mention the strain on ones back.  Mister was able to kill two birds with one stone as the adage goes. 

Introducing our new and improved potato bin.  Twice the amount of potatoes that we planted last year with room for the plants to grow and be mounded. Not to mention the terrific seating for when the time comes to dig those potatoes.  I am so pleased. 
More to come soon.  I promise...Old Wives Pails