You will know that we recycle/repurpose/reuse quite a bit here at Struan Farm. We're starting to dig and border the new extended vegetable bed in the backyard right now. Nephew Mike has just finished paving stones on the glasshouse side of the bed. John decided that the bed was so wide that it might be a good idea to have a walkway through the middle to be able to access tomatoes, corn, whatever we plant here (it will be garlic, shallots and tomatoes this first year). Of course I agreed!
So then the hunt was on for what to use for the walkway. We're running low on recycled bricks, those are needed to finish the new garden beds on the front lawn. It happened that I was down at the Homestead cracking into autumn cutbacks of dahlias, etc. etc. I remembered that we had quite a number of round stepping stones in the lawn where the old clothesline used to be. Excavation ensued:
Yep, buried treasure! More than enough for the walkway through the new veggie bed. Of course we'll fill in and re-grass those circles in the Homestead lawn "in due course." I've already planted garlic and shallots in a section of the new veggie bed, it's that time of the year.
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