We Only LOOK Like Rednecks ;-)

Cluckingham Palace, almost complete

...Our house, that is. In an attempt to make it ultimately better, we have made the place look like a hole: mud everywhere, chickens running around with a coop in the driveway, tarps lying out, cars and a boat parked in the yard, etc, etc. I keep expecting the realtor who is showing the place next door to show up with cash and beg us to clean the place up. Buuttt I think you will agree that you can finally see where we are headed here: it no longer looks just like a big mess, it looks like a promising future yard. Here's some pics of what is going down at Chez Sluys:

Front and back yard getting ready for grass: Jeff tractor-ed (is that a word?) out the weeds, rolled it, and now is spreading topsoil in preparation for the grass. The rock wall is done in the front and the box in the back is for a playset, so that the bark doesn't get in the grass. Next to that is going to be the trampoline and where all those rocks are is going to be a patio that leads into...

The garden. Which will also have grass where all the dirt is, and bark around the raised beds (8 of them). It's a pretty big garden. You can see a lot of it in the picture above. In the bottom one you can see the fruit trees. And now for some close ups of the plants:

Herb Wheel

Salad bowl- lettuces, radishes, marigolds for organic pest control

Sta-bees, as Aili says

Purple sprouting broccoli, cabbages, onion, garlic, cauliflour

Asparagus patch- since it is year one, we're letting it fern so that next year we get good spears

Trellised tomatoes, cucumbers, flowers

Purple bush beans, edamame, squash, and Aili's gerber daisies

 So if I was slow to return your phone calls, so sorry...we are working like crazy over here. But we miss everyone. And especially now that it is summer, we are ready for FUN. So give us a call....I promise I will call back :-)