new bed

Last fall, Ben told me we should do a raised bed next to the milk barn holding pen. I immediately said, "YES!" Usually, I'm the one who comes up with these ideas and drags him into the project. But this time he started it so he was much more inclined to make it happen. Last week we got on it. 

 The boards came from a cow shelter that bit the dust in a strong thunderstorm last spring. We cleaned them off, cut them down to size and slapped a couple coats of paint on them.

 Friday, an unseasonably warm day, I held the boards while Ben hammered the stakes in with the sledge.

 There was a chance for rain on Sunday, so we hustled to get the dirt in the bed before we had mud to deal with. Soooo...now we need to decide what we'll plant in this big new raised bed!