A productive day at the plot

Today has been an awfully productive day even considering it's mid/late January and there's very little going on out at the plot site.  I already did a post dedicated to the bench going in.  I also went through a milk crate full of newspapers putting that and a wheelbarrow load of mulch down around the bench and part of the gate-ward side of the arbor.

I built a garden box (12"x4'x10') for the plot site for folks who don't have the ability or, perhaps, interest to manage an entire plot.  That's part of the 4 hrs of site service necessary to have a plot with the Columbia Gardeners association.

I also finished installing the rest of the deck screws to be used for weaving the string for the bean trellising.

A view from on top of the arbor.  The new bench is shown, too.

It's also pretty neat to see that some of the onions (Walking and the test variety) are coming up.  A few of the garlic cloves are showing above the winter layer of leaves (not shown).

 

Some of the test onions are growing.

A few Egyptian Walking Onions are sprouting