Nottoway park

Nottoway park
Hunter House facing gardens

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

August 23th

Tuesday
Arrived a little after 7:30 am. Pulled up the tarps and draped them over the fence to dry them out. The plot looks GREAT. Worked on the final perimeter path for a bit and then Ginny arrived. We worked together and finished the path- Ginny is getting more wood chips to finish up the path. It looks like a garden without the tarps. We walked around the gardens to get an idea of how big/small to make the raised beds. I think that we are going to build one 4 feet by 8 feet raised bed  and then place it around the space to see how many we want. At this point, it seems that we need 8 of the 4 by 8 feet beds with 2 smalled raised beds set on the diagonal in the center of the plot (or wherever our chairs go) We also sketched out the placement of the gate. We replaced the tarps and left about 10 am. Time goes by so fast- I thought it was about 9 am.
Returned with Anne about noon for a a walk- met the next door neighbor "Bob and Noel" with their son Landon- he looks about 18 months old. Bob said they've had the plot about 3 years and their plot looked as bad as ours did when they started. He said they have yet to harvest anything this year because of the deer and the fact that they are expecting anew baby.  Bob said they had tons of stuff last year. He likes the black tape woven into the top of their fence. He says its permeated with Deer Liquid Fence and repels deer. He sugested that we put up a 6 foot high fence rather than the 3 foot fence they have.I asked him about their neighbor Plot 18 and he said she has the plot rototilled at the beginning of each season but doesn't plant anything and the plot is overgrown. Anne and I walked around and looked for pumpkins.
As I arrived home and was about to put the  key in to open the front door, the house started to shake- sort of vibrate- I looked up and could see the windows shivering. Poor Charlie was inside barking and I could hear glass shaking. I turned around and ran down to the sidewalk as soon as I realized it was an earthquake.

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