Letters to you

I spent today sheet mulching what will be garden paths for now. We plan to rotate and shift things around year by year, but at the moment, these are the paths. Rialian and his dad went out early this morning and picked up a free small trailer-full of sawdust from a local lumberyard. We're allowed to pick up that amount of sawdust once a month. The sawdust, the newspapers and boxes in Rialian's dad's basement, and the cheap strawbales available in the neighborhood will provide more than enough material to sheet mulch the entire garden area. I had thought that it would be expensive to get enough material, but so far it hasn't been. After laying down the newspapers, I transferred some of the truckload of sawdust to complete most of the paths. There's room for one or two more large raised beds with paths in the sheet mulched half of the garden. This load of sawdust may cover the whole thing.

Meanwhile, Rialian and his dad are completing the electric fencing so we can add some hives in the next few weeks.

We stopped for a break and I found four dog ticks on me (eek). Three of those were affixed to my ears and one was on my leg. That garden is full of ticks with nothing to eat except me, apparently. After a shower and load of laundry, I'm venturing out into the garden again (believe it or not). This time, I've sprayed myself with atomic tick repellent of some sort. Hopefully it works...