It's long past time really that we started planting stuff, despite the quirky weather. I did start off with some of the basic stuff that we would typically plant. As usual, Lowe's has their share of different plants, despite the fact that the prices went up substantially. I only got a few things to fill in the opening spots in the raised beds that were available. Don't forget, I had to dismantle one litter bucket bed and emptied out the pair of old drum raised beds due to degradation. The remaining beds, which were still aplenty, had some stuff already planted. Some of the planters already have some lettuce plants in place, along with several onion plants. I also planted several seed potato eyes in the larger raised beds. Some of the potatoes are already coming up, along with a small batch of potato eyes that were actually leftovers from last year which taken root. The number of planters were kind of limited. I got a flat of tomatoes, peppers, corn, garden peas, and sweet potatoes. The corn went in one row of drum raised beds near the middle of the garden, just in front of the Greenhouse. Some of the peas went into a new set of drum beds across from the larger row of drum beds. The rest of the peas went in the planters in the Greenhouse, along with the peppers. The sweet potatoes were planted in the same row of drum beds along the back fence, as they were last year. The tomatoes were planted in the one litter bucket bed, leaving two slots in that bed, since the tomato flat had six plants and the bed has eight buckets. After planting the seedlings, I moved on to another stage in the shed project. While getting the seedlings, I also got three 4x8 pressure treated plywood boards to cover the frame for the new storage shed I'm currently building. With that in hand, I tacked down the three boards, making things ready for me to start building the frame using the old portable garage frame pieces. I managed to lay out the main pieces I would need to set up the roof frame pieces and vertical pieces for the walls. I will possibly have to shorten the roof frame tubes as the old structure was 10ft wide at the bottom base. Even with the taper that the structure had as it went up to the roof, the roof frame sections may still be a little bit wider than the 8ft of the frame. Either way, I'll tweak the lengths of the tubes and start bolting things together to get the frame erected. I have plenty of pieces of tubing that I can reinforce the whole frame, making it plenty sturdy to accommodate the sheet metal that will clad the frame, as well as be sturdy enough to withstand any winds that may whip up through the area. Things are coming together.
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