July 30, 2023
It’s been a long time coming – but today, Liz and I put some time in the backyard to trim down a lot of overgrown foliage.
On our side, Tippi has gotten out of hand. And honestly, has been out of hand for several months now. While Liz was working on Tippi, I was working on trimming a lot of the tree branches that were bleeding into our area from the neighbor’s yard… and over-shading our garden boxes.
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June 28, 2023
Liz, showing off some garlic from the garden boxes. I knew these guys grew underground, but had no idea there was so much above ground. I feel like the house is pretty well covered now, in case we get a rush of vampires in the area.
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June 26, 2023
It’s been a few mornings like this, and this new ritual feels remarkably nice. As the coffee is brewing, I’m out in my backyard… the air is still cool, with dew still on the ground.
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May 24, 2023
Made good progress on the other one. Hard to believe that we just painted these three years ago. And even harder to believe that we built these guys seven years ago.
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May 5, 2021
Liz has a vision for restructuring our backyard. To even begin laying out that plan, one of our garden boxes needed to be relocated.
This isn’t a final move, but more of a “get it out of the way for now” move.
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June 6, 2020
With a few dry days behind us, and a few dry days ahead… along with the phenomenal weather we were expecting this weekend… Saturday was an outside work day. On the docket: touching up the fence and painting the garden boxes.
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April 7, 2020
The weather was really something today, with us hitting a high in the upper 70’s. As a result, Liz threw on some garden clothes and went outside to tend to our garden boxes.
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July 29, 2019
Apparently, the zucchini had been hit by some bugs, and weren’t really growing all that much. So she had been mostly ignoring them. But apparently not all the zucchini were impacted, as this guy just kept on gathering strength.
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July 11, 2019
The interesting thing to note is that ground cherries tend to fall to the ground when they’re ripe. Hence, the name.
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July 3, 2019
href=”https://avoision.com/2016/05/30/garden-box-construction-part-12-plus-a-full-day-working-the-backyard.php”>we built them, these things have really held their own.
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May 20, 2019
Looking at the week, there was a lot of rain in the forecast (at least, there was when we looked on Sunday night). The best day to get the remaining plants in the ground looked to be today, after work. So Liz and I got our grubby clothes on after work, and tried to get as much as we could with the last of the day’s light.
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April 20, 2019
Liz, braving the space beneath the front porch to retrieve some gardening supplies. Given how much she dislikes scampers, this really was a bold move for her.
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June 19, 2017
Liz, nearly hidden by how well her garden box is doing this year.
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April 11, 2017
It’s hard to believe that we built our garden boxes a full year ago. Although… I guess we started a year ago, but it did take us longer than we expected to finish.
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March 25, 2017
You know what’s crazy? I took this photo yesterday, on March 25th. Exactly a year ago from yesterday, we picked up the lumber for our garden box project.
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