Clearing the Main Pasture

Clearing the Main Pasture

We've slowly but surely been working on clearing the main pasture. It had been used as a garden area by the previous owner, but it hasn't been cleared or maintained for about two years. Eventually, this clearing will become the flower/herb garden on the shadier Northern side of the clearing up the hill from the home site. But before we build the home in the opening we're clearing and leveling a 40' x 60'  in the garden area and planting the border shrubs in order to get married in what will become the garden. Pee-Paw is going to build an arbor for us to stand under at the West end of the garden, in front of the big pine you can see in the third picture. The first two pictures show a before and after of the field from a big day of clearing. If you look for the light pole in both photographs it's easier to figure out what is where. The main difference is that we cleared all of the brush that was standing about 4' tall in the entire clearing. We also removed trees in the strip of blackberries that we plan to keep there, for at least one more year of harvesting. There are plenty of wild blackberry patches all over the property, so we know we'll keep some of them around, but all of them just aren't necessary. Probably about 10' x 30' of blackberries are in that strip you can see more closely on the right in the third picture. We also removed the smaller trees beneath the two large trees on this side of the driveway. Notice how you can see the trunks in the second picture, but not the first picture. The strip of green in front of the light pole in the second picture is the same strip as seen from the closer view in the right of the third picture, looking West at the big pine.