On January 30th about twenty enthusiastic master gardeners showed up to break ground on the new learning garden. They dug out most of the main path that goes through the garden from north to south.

Smiling gardeners

Plenty of work to go around

End of the first work day

They also built a shed within the shed so we can keep our stuff like shovels and pick-axes.

Handy Shed

The next work day was Feb 6, but we had a whole lot of this and the road to the garden was impassable.

Not since 2008

Last Thursday (Feb 13th) we met again to finish digging down the path to the required 5" - 6", put down landscape fabric, and pour on the gravel.

Using the straight pipe to measure the depth of the path

Laying down the landscape fabric

Now just have to get this mountain of gravel over to the path.

A full body workout waiting to happen

First wheelbarrow of gravel  - woohoo!

 Jack and Judy were working on the spiral herb garden which is nicely taking shape:

Spiral Herb Garden