Author Archives: billcarpenter4

Replacing a Retaining Wall

Well I wish I could say I planned on replacing the small stone retaining wall that encircled our awesome looking precast concrete stair in the background of the above picture, but it was a spur of the moment idea that took close to 4 spring weekends to complete.  Unfortunately the above picture from last year […]

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Garden Update

After a good solid month of working around the house and planting the garden I can say as of last weekend I have all of the spring plantings complete.  In the last month I have torn down and re-built a rock retaining wall, installed a new concrete block retaining wall added two new 4×8 beds, […]

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Onions and Garlic

What a difference a few warm days have made this week for my fall plantings last year. Below is a photo from April 6th, 2013 of this year.  I learned my lesson from the 2011-12 garlic season and cleared off my shredded leaf mulch as soon as the weather started to warm in early April […]

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