The 4 R's

Usually people refer to the 3 R's... reduce, recycle, reuse. However, the newest R is rot. Yes, I said rot. I'm talking composting! I am really excited to experiment with composting. I did a little research and my favorite bin for composting is the three bin composting station. I found a design plan online and Pat Tracy built it for me (wow... he's too good to me!). I think the current compost pile we have might have to go in our green bin, not so sure it's acceptable for compost considering it has old llama urine in it and other unknown things.

Sweet 3-bin compost station, the boards in the front can be added an taken away as the compost pile builds.

Today I also put some vegetables and seeds into one of the garden beds. Pat Tracy also brought over some onion seedlings he got from one of his friends. They needed to go directly into the ground and so I decided to add some more seeds too. Unfortunately, it's still a bit too cold to do all the seeds. But today I put in the onions, beets, parsnips, radishes, and lettuce.

Garden bed from left to right - onion, beet, parsnip, sweet peppers (not yet planted), radish, lettuce 

Unique seeds... I've never seen beet seeds before.

The Hollow Crown Parsnip seed is really flat  and light.

Garden bed complete with string for straight planting.

I also planted another garden bed full of Dahlias, Peonies, and Gladiolus. I read in one of my gardening books to place a stake where the eye of the bulb is. I guess that will help support it as it grows. I really wish I didn't jump the gun on planting the wine barrels before my vacation. I didn't do the proper research and I'm not too sure I correctly planted the peonies and dahlias in those barrels.

The bulbs I planted!! :)

All you can see are the stakes and small silver name tags. Hopefully in another month or so they'll look like the pictures on the bulb bags.

I also took some pictures of the beautiful roses as they are already turning into large, colorful blooms.