My garden in a small rural village in northern Spain. Trimming grass and shrubs.
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Got my compost trommel going a little bit yesterday and this morning before work (and the rain)!
Was talking to my husband about jury-rigging up a cordless drill to spin it instead of manually. That is for later though. Right now this gets the job done! 
Treasure!!
I forgot to picture previously gnarly giant rusted nails, a decrepit pocket knife. I have also found a decent amount of marbles around the yard as well, so if someone says I lost themā¦ I just need to go dig around in the garden!!
I really like marbles and hope to find more.
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I made my first graft today. Cleft grafted two lemon scions onto an existing, probably 10 year old trifoliata rootstock. I canāt find any parafilm or grafting tape here in Portugal, so I used electrical tape and candle wax.
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Potted up a couple of things, but mostly spent the day playing with the chainsaw and woodchipper clearing up much of the winter cull - intentional and natural. It felt rather productive.
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Iām a hyper-doer so I truly couldnāt list all I do on a weekend day with a chunk of free time, itās insane. But, I have super high hopes of finishing off a few projects today- finishing and filling my new strawberry pallet beds, installing new, unobtrusive cucumber trellis we built, finishing wiring one of the new kiwi trellises, lots of vegetable garden-related tasks, some fertilizing and maybe a few more grafts. Itās set to be a relatively easy afternoon and Iām looking forward to not rushing as much as normal. If all goes according to plan, Iāll just be working on 3 more trellises in the next 10 days (one with cattle panels, 1 all conduit, 1 all bamboo that should be the most fun,) and then all major spring tasks will be complete and I can get back to other time suck things I love to do!!
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It started with one blueberry. I planted it at the edge of our pine forest.
I found out that this area is severely flooded all winter long, so I created a raised bed, and replanted it in there.
Then I decided I had to buy a second blueberry as a pollinator. So I created a second raised bed, and planted a second one in there.
But I created that bed a bit too enthusiastically, so it was large enough to accommodate two blueberries. So I bought number three.
Then I thought: if I connect the two beds, it will look better, and it is slightly more efficient in holding moisture in summer. The beds were six meters apart, soā¦ after many wheelbarrows of soil, rotting wood, pine needles and bark, mulch, and big logs, I finally finished my connected raised bed and added blueberry numbers four and five.
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That is stunning! Great work. This is the kind of stuff I dream of doing on a chunk of land. Thanks for sharing
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almost done with filling in all my dirt LOL. i got everything i have right now planted, gearing up for the great muscadine shipping experience.
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Due to the seed heads appearing today, I discovered that the patch of wheat I sowed is not what actually grew . . . instead, I have a patch of two lookalike weed grasses I keep trying to eliminate. 
I planted the Gunnera my Mom gave me this morningā¦ anyone know how to tell if it is the edible type? Heheā¦
It is on top of a stool in my pond.
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watching the rain finish melting the snow. will be spraying, pruning, planting and grafting by the weekend.
cutting grass patches out from among my non-weed flowers
opposite land from how the neighbors are going today