Garden Dilemma and Some Projects

My garden started out pretty organized 

and stunning.    By the first week in

July ~ it was a mess with weeds.

The black fabric that I chose this

year was a big Fail!  The weeds grew

underneath and the fabric literally

disintegrated.

So I have my plan (product) for next

year.

As for this year, we did the best we could

do amongst the weeds. 

We had a good crop of strawberries, these

are separate from the rest of the garden

so they did well.

There was a couple of meals of broccoli

and some put in the freezer.

The sweet onions growing in the tubs

did very well. 

The variety of peppers has been a bit

of struggle but I think that is more due

to our weather.

The cabbage, beans and potatoes are

growing amongst those darn weeds.

And a couple of the tomato plants

have survived.

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Hubby's project ~ was making a smaller

sized horse water tank for this side

of the pasture.

A plastic barrel was located and then

he went to work. 

We ended up with a barrel sized

insulated water tank.

It took awhile for them to check it

out, many days they walked right

by it.   Then the heat came and stayed

and they found out that the water

in this tank stayed nice and cool.

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I had some painting projects and 

they were finished just in time for

the 4th of July.

A $5 bench...

A board looking for some paint...

and some rounds.

Done just in time to celebrate...