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<\/a>This is the fifth framework laying on the paving stones in the garden, waiting to be glued together.<\/p><\/div>\n
By this time we have a system going and it doesn’t take a long time to put this together.\u00a0 It’s a lot of sawing and measuring and gluing.\u00a0 The gluing part is fun!\u00a0 It gets all over everything.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Put together and sitting on the raised bed. This one doesn't have anything planted in it yet, so no need to cover it up. The far end of this raised bed is all the extra large strawberry plants I had such high hopes for. The winter did them in. Boo.<\/p><\/div>\n
Each raised bed requires two frameworks.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Two completed raised beds, covered and protected.<\/p><\/div>\n
The floating row covers are very lightweight and the wind pulls them out from where they are tucked in under the framework.\u00a0 Not ideal, but since we installed them, the plant predation has ceased.\u00a0 Yay!!!!\u00a0 Humans win a round!<\/p>\n
<\/a>Had we not covered these pea plants, they would have been mowed to the ground.<\/p><\/div>\n
The onions share the same bed with the peas and they are also enjoying their floating row cover.\u00a0 It all makes watering a wee bit tedious as we have to move the floating row covers out of the way and then tuck them back in again after the watering is done.\u00a0 But at least we have plants that need to be watered!<\/p>\n
<\/a>The gooseberry plant is gigantic and covered with little berries. We will have even more fruit from this plant than last year, and the other gooseberry plant is also putting on a lot of berries.<\/p><\/div>\n
This was a close up.\u00a0 The berries are very small at the moment.\u00a0 There are just a LOT of them. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
<\/a>Here are the gooseberry, rhubarb, and josta berry plants all striving for supremacy of space.<\/p><\/div>\n
We have already picked some rhubarb from the plant and need to harvest a bunch more.\u00a0 The raised bed has the potato plants which are from the seed potatoes we saved out from last fall.\u00a0 They are looking really good.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Red currant fruits are just literally covering all six of the bushes. Last year we got a small amount of fruit; this year will make up for it.<\/p><\/div>\n
Dan really loves the red currant jam, so this is a good thing to see.\u00a0 Chipmunks love the fruit too, so it will be a contest to see who gets there first.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Dan shows how big the rhubarb plant is.<\/p><\/div>\n
The bigger of our two cherry trees is behind him and it is also loaded with cherries.\u00a0 The apple tree to the right of the cherry tree is done blooming but we don’t know if it set any fruit yet.<\/p>\n
<\/a>These three josta berry plants are huge. Some of the stems are taller than Dan. And they are absolutely full of fruit. This will be the first real harvest.<\/p><\/div>\n
We have been waiting for these plants to get with the program, and it looks like this year will be a taste of things to come. Josta berry jam is Dan’s favorite of all the jams I make.<\/p>\n