A few weeks later it is filling out nicely and we have strawberries!

They were dead - went and bought new plants.

That is the veggie garden up to date. Now on to some of the other areas, we worked on in parallel.

Have you ever seen those long plastic bags that people grow flowers or strawberries in? Well we did, and thought "why not a post?" You don't need a hook. So we drilled some holes (Chuck drilled) and sunk it in the ground (again Chuck.) I had ordered some strawberries from an online company, but unfortunatly they were in the fridge too long and died. Pretty aren't they? I wasn't sure at this point if they would come back to life or not.

This bed is all tomatos and peppers.

Things are growing! (thank goodness) This bed is: beans, lettuce, spinach, brocolli, eggplant, carrots.

They are all in!

The plants go in! These are the tomatoes.

Chuck bent this conduit, so we can put a cover on it to a) keep it warm and b) keep it from drowning, we have had crazy rain this year.

The beds, full of dirt, that is peat on top, that I am about to mix in. (I didn't use enough however.)

Ah, the dirt is all moved into the beds.

Desem of course, enjoys a little cool dirt.

We started putting the dirt in, by hand!

Here are the plants, pending planting.

Here comes the dirt, this is about 15 CY (cubic yards.)

Then the drainage pipes and the pea gravel to make the soil drain into the pipes.

Then we put the rubber down.

Here we are fitting the pipe (and support plate) over the cistern hole, then we put the rubber over. You can see the hole in the side, made with the drill press, that the drainage pipes will feed into.

Then because of course, we want to be able to pump out of the cistern, we have to put in a pipe so we have access - it's right in the middle of the garden bed. Here is the pipe on the drill press, pre-drilling, Chuck and I lifted it up, it's about 200+ lbs. Egad.

Then we put the rubber into the beds and put in the drainage pipes.

So now that we have finished escavation, we have to put in the rubber, which comes on a big roll. It is actually roofing material.