I've been busy busy the last month. Got my veggie garden going, built some new cucumber trellis, started some fig clones, got some Clementine orange trees started. So far I've moved 5, 4x6 trailer fulls of compost, all shoveled by hand...i really need a bobcat or small tractor.
The last week I've been working on building a hugelkulture with all the downed trees we had this winter. It's 25ft long and about 6ft wide. It's getting planted with asparagus, strawberries, and a couple dwarf apple trees(next year, once it settles) and some other perennial herbs, plus annual squashes ands beans/ peas. I'm trying to play with some permaculture gardening, mainly because I'm lazy.. lol. I need to get to my buddies farm and get a truck load, or 3, of manure at some point, luckily he has a front end loader at the farm.
Once I get this one done, I have enough material to build another, but that's going to wait till fall I think. I still want to dig a 20-30ft dia, 4-5ft deep retaining pond, again no machines, just my 2 arms and a shovel. Gonna be a busy summer, at least I should be pretty jacked with all this manuel labor.