After some debate on where the best place to put the garden would be, we realized the corner of yard by the house really would be the best and make the most sense, although we knew this would not be the easiest location to put it....as you will see in later pictures.
Yep, thats the spot. Perfect know just dig up the grass and get the soil ready to plant a garden. What do you mean the ground is too hard, where are your muscles?
Ok, so just rent a tiller and the ground will be all ready to plant. Why do I see standing water where we are planting the garden? Oh thats right our crappy yard tends to all puddle when it rains and apparently we have picked one of those puddle areas. Once we get the ground all tilled up we will be ok though.....right?
What do you mean you spent all day with the tiller and this is all you got done! I don't see standing water anymore, but the ground doesn't really look ready to plant a garden either. So after a few days of hard labor, a rented tiller (that really did no good..although we should have known this because when they were trying to put up our fence they had to jack hammer the ground on this side due to all the hard rock underneath) we are moving on to "Plan B".
"Plan B" consists of making a raised garden, which is really what we wanted in the beginning anyway. Here is the first truck load of soil. And the guy that loaded it told Jeremy "this dirt with grow some good tamaters" so I guess the pressure is on, although we didn't plant any tomatoes.
Here is truck load two of soil and the start of the retaining wall.
Ok, wall is complete and soil is ready to go. Now someone just needs to plant, plant, plant.
I took over the planting since Jeremy said he had no idea what to do, plus he had already done all the work by getting the thing made and ready to plant. So on I went planting rows and rows of seeds and hoping like heck they actually grow.
This half of the garden is by far the most important: 3 rows of corn and 3 of peas!
Corn was the first thing to start popping up, lucky for Jeremy
A few bean sprouts then followed....man the peas better come up or I will tear this whole garden out :) And I am happy to report everything came up over the next couple of weeks and we have a healthy and growing garden. Now we just have to keep watering it and wait for all the good fresh veggies.
This is what the garden currently look like. We have Corn, Peas (of course), Green Beans, Lettuce, Onions, Artichokes and Cucumbers.
3 comments:
Mmmmmm, looks yummy already!
What a great looking garden! I hope that ours can look as good as that. We started corn, carrots, onions and tomorrow we will be planting pumpkins, watermelon (ambitious I know) and zucchini. It really is fun to see the progress :)
Your garden looks great! I just gave Bev's last pot of flowers to the neighbors as we are heading out Monday for a 3 month road trip. First stop, Indiana then off to Minnesota, and finally Ephrata before returning to AZ next fall. We will try to hook up with your folks when we are back in WA. Have a great SUMMER!
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