My $5.00 compost bin

I am so happy I have stapler now!
I do not know how I lived without this magic tool!

It took 30 minutes and $5.00 today to build my composting bin.
I am using old chicken wire, rounded for compost, but I need more bins and I want them to be portable.

So I made 3 panels today, using old floor woods and green plastic netting. The 25 feet cost $9.00 and I used only about 4x6x4m so it can be $5.00.
I did not finish the project, sometimes I made 90% and after when I have time I will finishing them.
I need to make a front panel.

Thank you, Mr. Stapler!

Still cold outside

I am tired of waiting, where is the warmth?

We had snow at night again!
Anyway I have so much work to do, I am spending 2-3 hr last days.
There is my second butch of tomatoes , need to be transplanted.

 Basil at last! First time nothing was germinated, this time I used per-sprouted seeds.

 Chard on the windowsill is getting really large!

 My fennel - first time.

 Okra, I loved okra last year on the sunny porch.

 Celery Utah, transplanted and thinned.

 The biggest celery is now 4 inches long.

 Peppers.

 Greens on the top room.

 Mostly kohlrabi and broccoli are waiting to be planted outside.

 New container of cilantro.

 Borago - first time!

 Turnips.









 Asian greens.

 Yesterday with a help of my husband (thank you!) I added 5 more beds. Some are not finished and under black plastic. I do not turn the soil, just lay fall leaves right on the grass, than homemade compost+soil from woods.

I checked last year bed where I plan to grow carrots this year.  The soil is perfect, as I see, easy to dig, as butter! I just removed old mulch, ad turned the soil. Upper level is almost black, below the soil is more clay-look but can not compare with regular soil I have everywhere.
So my lazy raised bed method is working.

 Signs of sorrel

 I accidentally dump wood ash on the blueberry this winter. Now I am correcting this, removing all old mulch and adding a layer of compost.

 Strawberry Ozark beauty planted in early winter, now covered with black plastic.

 First irregular strawberry bed is cleaned and thinned from runners. There is mostly Ozark Beauty and Allstar. Last year I did not have strawberry, only some of them. So this year (second) I believe I will have a good harvest!

Expanding the garden

Garden rush!
Today was pretty warm, so I went out side and made 2 more raised beds.
This season I am expending my garden from 38x33 ft to 60x 43 , almost double size!
I really need more space for root vegetable, last year I didn't grow them,   for berries, for peppers and more.

And I am really worrying that I will be low in soil. I am using old brick for raises beds,
and homemade leaf and kitchen scrap compost.

There will be a small bed - cold frame.

 I will use it for seedling.
That's how it looks like, I raked the soil, arranged 2 rows of bricks,
put first layer of leafs and wooden sticks,
that the leaf mold I was stored in black garbage bags,
that the old black plastic and old window frame.

I hope in 2 month the soil under the plastic and glass will became rich compost, I will probably add some top soil.
See you in 2 month good soil!