Beautiful day in Vermont! 56F and sunny. Lucky for us we got 6 yards of top soil delivered. It was a lot of work but we got all our new raised beds filled today.
Top soil was delivered late this morning. Good news, we have a nice spot at the bottom of our driveway to stage materials. Bad news its at the bottom of the hill and the raised beds are in the back corner of our yard.
We saved some cardboard to line the beds.
The had some left over wood chips from last fall. We rented a big wood chipper and got rid of two brush piles that were on our land when we moved in. We used the wood chips as filler in the deeper parts of the raised beds. We also used some split wood in the deepest bed. Some people advise mixing in mulch. Honestly we did it mostly to reduce the amount of top soil we had to buy.
Next we started adding the top soil. The finished results are in the first photo of the post.
Now for a few bonus pics 馃檪
Spring is finally coming to Vermont.
We got some bulbs in the ground last fall.
Daffodils, tulips and crocus.
First snake of the year. A feisty little garter snake.
This is the second haha. Very warm day today.
Started a stone wall in the corner of our yard. This corner was overrun with sumac when we moved in. I cut it all down last fall. You can actually see some of the stumps. Some people like sumac for the fall colors but you have to be careful because it spreads like crazy.
Thats all for today. Very happy that filling raised beds with top soil went well.