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!