So still patchwork. Yesterday I worked in the dirt.
This raised bed was here. Huge, 12 feet square inside. I like that it is square but I really can't get to the growing space. I divided it into 4 beds with 2 foot paths. Then, I was online, pricing garden supplies, when my other self suddenly blurted out "Fuck You". Like I need to pay you for stones, soil? What in the world are we thinking really? Anyway, it took me most of the day to get this far. And it's going to rain tomorrow so I will be outside most of today trying to finish.
A little more work on the Just Home Series. Talking then, sorry, there were some remnants of raisins in my mouth...
Like friendly neighbors…
Smiling and waving here from my hill, oxo. Another way for us all to be together.
yes, all of a sudden it seems like that
love the blur between the indoor and outdoor. patchwork and pathwork. a garden with rooms. a bed for plants… these storybook cottages make my heart sing. x
design mending, it all seems like the same thing.
If you define the crossing of the paths you have your own garden nine-patch 😀
Yes!!!
Love hill house…and river house…well, all. A neighborhood of friends, can’t get much better than that! xo
a circle of safety.
love your patchwork garden !
gosh, it’s so much better now
oh, I did so love hauling rocks, the sledge loaded and the rope tied about my hips, leaning into it … have fun!
I had to jump in here because while we never had had a lot of land in the homes that we owned, our home in the bay area of CA was on a 1/2 acre that came with cherry and lemon trees and some fir trees as well. We created 2 gardens on that 1/2 acre, a veggie garden and a cutting flower garden and that meant hauling rocks and smoothing the dirt, over and over. Our next door neighbors one afternoon came to the fence because they could hear me laughing…I was laughing because I was “dirt” surfing. R had gotten a huge piece of wide board, nailed a heavy rope to it, tied the rope around his waist, asked me to get on the board and he towed me as if I were surfing on the land, I had to keep my balance, arms out and it did indeed look like I was surfing the dirt to make it smooth in preparation for garden beds! This is one of my most endearing garden memories…
a great story Marti!
hey, I will have to try that
Your garden looks great. You don’t need to buy anything! Your forest will have all you need… great soil, stones etc etc. And your garlic looks good!
yeah, the garlic is really strong.
Bless you Jude you took me back to childhood when we made “shoebox ” gardens joy ,might make one again x
shoebox garden! love that,
Thanks for all you do to keep our tribe energised x
Love the sketch for hill house. People coming to mind with houses. It takes a village. 😊
exactly…
go for walks, you’ll find stones and soil in the forest is the best
I live in a forest.
I was thinking of adding a house to my big blue cloth . I love your houses
and garden too.
They really give a simple sense of comfort.
Nice garden plot! Ours is in rows. Maybe someday I’ll make it squares. I love how you are stitching a little village.
It’s funny how stitching has become like a village.
love the movement of flow in River house…repeated 5 times…in the earth, the house its Self and even in
the sky tho it is vertical
been creating these river motifs. I think they can flow through anything.
Yes that’s a bed that needs to be divided. I’ve read that 4 feet is about the span of a useful raised bed, so that the middle can be reached from all edges. Just about sunrise here and the chickadees are calling. The hill house made me smile.
Yeah these are 5ish, but ok. This was so much fun….off I go….
Hah, I laughed at your comment about the stones! I love using ours for various things, and you have a bunch there… love the way you are dividing the square into patches, even if it’s 4 instead of 9!
yeah, it is actually nine in a way, but I will draw that out tomorrow…
Your other self and my current self speak the same language!
ha!