about a month ago, before so much work and growth

so much time has past, so much growth, so much work...

Been Busy

We went out and got some garden timbers for the beds and dirt....



Spent two days putting in the timbers, leveling, adding peat moss and soil and rototilling....



Then we decided that a natural pressure treated wood was not what we wanted, so we picked Cape Cod Gray...

I love it, it blends into the yard a bit and looks like it was here for years...

it's not fun staining fence in 100 degree weather... what happened to April?

And then we have these...

And these....

CHEERS!!!!

Been busy!

Last Weekend

No pics today but last weekend we finished the planting beds, finished the soil additions, rototilled and planted! no veggies yet, we're waiting till may 1st for that, but some nice flowers and leafy green borders...

pics to come!

Cheers!

Biding Time Till A Dry Weekend...

Some new growth, well new plantings and blooming bulbs really. It's rained every weekend for three weeks and I think the weather plans on being unfavorable again this weekend so no rototillering for me again... that irks me to no end, the one nice weekend we had I blew being lazy...

We decided to remove one large and ugly dead bush and plant a Euonymus (that's fancy pants for Burning Bush, I'd go into the stuck up brat high school kid who sold it to me and how he "helped" me pronounce Euonymus, but all he really did was make me want to hit him over the head with it, he could have just said Burning Bush but then he wouldn't have gotten to sound so "smart")

In any respect, we replaced a large mostly dead bush in the from of the house.I'm not a fan of digging out roots and rocks, but you would think I would be with all the holes I have to dig...





Please try and ignore the drainage pipe, that's one of the reasons we put a bush there, well that and privacy for the sun room.






We also put in two Clematis vines.
We're hoping they'll grow and grow and grow all over the picket fence. I was told that they should cover about 15 feet each.














So we put one at each end of the fence, if they do well we'll add another on the side probably... I know, it's hard to see...







I also added a "found rock" border to the bulb garden...

As you can see I haven't found quite enough rocks yet, but we did add some bright and beautiful Annuals! I need a better picture of them though...Here's what blooming!


Cheers!!!!!

That’s Finally Done...

Just finished step two in ground prep. The first was to mulch, mulch, more mulch and add some compost then cover the grass all winter to kill it.

That left me with this...


So this week I woke up a little early every day to work on the second step (Working nights that means waking at like 2pm and working for an hour)



This step was not fun at all, my back is killing me, but the soil needed to be turned and the grass killed so I can move on to step three soon, the rototiller...

I need to rent one, and a trunk to get it home... My little VW is not going to be able to get a decent rear-tine tiller home along with a lot of dirt and 4x4's for the beds.








I found a lot of these little suckers in there,
Which made me happy,










wormy soil is good soil!










So that's that for now, it's all cover up again and it's supposed to rain all through the weekend so I'm not too sure when I'll get to tilling. I hope soon, those plants we planted are getting along... We may have jumped the gun on that this year, oh well I'll just have to try and pot some of them. Pictures to come soon!

Live and learn, to grow better...

Cheers!

More of Early Spring

Just some of the new growth...



































































There are no doubts now. Spring is here and I need to till the soil...

Planting A Seed

So it's that time of year (at last!).

The time of year when one starts planting the seeds for a summer harvest. And in the sprite of that planting here are the seeds, all snugly placed in little nests of dirt, sitting in the sun, and moistened daily...




For this summer (our first in our new home and our first real garden) we have an assortment of Heirloom Tomatoes, Burpless Cucumbers,hot peppers (all sorts!) as well as red, green and purple bell peppers, yellow squash, zucchine and letticue. Thats just to start!

So we'll be keeping our (hopfully) green thumbs crossed that all turns out well and in about a weeks time we should have som little green sprouts shooting up!


CHEERS!!!!!!!

Spring and a new beginning

It's Spring!

So the first crocuses are making their way threw the not so frozen soil and I am ready to get started. I am a little amazed, last weekend it was 10 degrees out and we had our first real snow of 9 inches, this week it was 76 degrees and the flowers are coming!

This will be an account of our (K and I) first attempt at a real garden. By real I mean something larger then a 6x6 patch that is full of sunflowers or gourds. Last fall I put in a fence and covered the grass with a tarp so that this spring I could till it into the soil (no good reason to get rid of all that organic material!). If the weather holds out we'll be off to rent a tiller and truck (to get it and the soil home), then we'll be on our way!

So as I said this will be an account of our follies, flops and fabulous outcomes....

More to come!