the new vegie patch

With tremendous fanfare the Sams Creek crew present their newest addition.....

Yep its our magnificent new vegie garden (to be.... I don't know if you can call it a vegie garden when it hasn't been planted yet)

It started out back in july... when Farmer Phil (FP) took pity on our sad old vegie patch...

and decreed that we would have Raised Garden Beds.... and it seemed that these Beds required a position suiting their elevated status... a nice flat area (for a change....).... there was only one place - right at the edge of our big yard - up against the highway... (oh this will be fun in the future - public vegie gardening - I'll have to wear something more suitable than some of my past outfits - which have included my swimming cosie - hey it's hot work gardening...)




and so it was decided - but FP is not one to take the easy route - there is no nicking down to the local hardware store to pick up some timber.. no no no... FP selected the trees on the farm, dropped them, barked them, then brought in the mobile mill to cut the timber to size (no pics of this in operation - I forgot to pack the camera - trust me its a major undertaking...)


after a small time for seasoning (and no I don't mean with salt and pepper... I mean drying)
FP finalised his plans and started cutting the timber to size....


Placing it in position for all the world to admire (well anyone having a sticky beak from the highway...)

then the real work began... enter THE STRING LINES


FP is a firm believer in the adage 'if a job's worth doing, its worth doing right'
(read - with bloody straight lines - none of this 'artistic' garden business for FP)

Its also worth doing with REALLY BIG EQUIPMENT... (enter really big tractor to make really big holes...)
note the string line still in position.... no hole dare be out of alignment...


note the string line still in position.... no post dare be out of alignment...


as soon as the posts were all in the 'raised' construction could begin...


After more than six weeks of hard work all it needs now is a few tonne of topsoil and compost and then - well then it will be our new vegie garden....

and then I'll post some pics of MY contribution (which to date consists only of taking pics and admiring my long-suffering husband's handiwork... I think I'll keep him on eh?)