grounding

With the insanity of the last month it was a very welcome relief to finally be able to get a lot of garden and yard work done. The platform that my shed sits on is rapidly rotting and since I have to empty everything out I figured I might as well move it out of the protected, south face spot and in it's place I will be building a green house. I've also managed to get quite a few perennial herb plants (three of each: Rosemary, Thyme, Oregano, Lavendar and Echinacea) plus four dwarf (10-15ft tall) fruit trees. I'm particularly happy about the fruit trees, two different variates of pears with one being an early harvest and the second being a late harvest. I also picked up a cherry tree that starts producing fruit in early June and lastly I bought a fig tree. This will go along with the two very productive cherry plumb trees and nearby apple trees.

I still have to figure out where all these are going, but I'm building a map of the backyard (geo-referenced aerial phots with 2 foot pixels are great) complete with several different data layers (soil, geology, land use, known ground water pollution, ...) and the permaculture course that I'm in should be more then enough to put together a great design. I likely have more then enough yard space to fit in a lot more gardening space a few more dwarf fruit trees and design it so George can still dork around the backyard.