• Feb. 20, 2009 - It's Gonna be a Garden Party!
This time of year always makes me ready to garden. I have to admit, I have a brown-to-black thumb. My husband has labored repeatedly making me gardens in the various places we have lived. I usually coax some food out of them, but weeds are more prolific than I'd like. It's all Adam's fault!
My Honey has, once again, given in to my desire to grow veggies, and has given permission to begin. I will be documenting our progress from time to time. This is the first garden I'll have had since we had the pool put in three years ago. I'm ready!
The children and I pulled most of the nasty crabgrass out of the chosen area. Yes, crabgrass....our neighbors-to-the-west 'graciously' used it for their entire back lawn. We planted fescue. Crabgrass beats fescue every time. :( The crabgrass was in all the bare places. I left the fescue simply mowed, since it will die easily with the blocks and garden atop it.
My friend kindly gave me a great stack of pavers that she no longer needed. It was quite a job to load them into our van, but the kids and I did it, and actually got all of them in one load, even with all the seats in the van! There weren't many places without bricks stacked, I can tell you! The same day I had been given 51 canning jars, so they were taking up lots of room, too! That's the most my poor van has ever had to bear, I think.
We'll be doing one large rectangular bed behind the boat, and a smaller bed near the house.
Tomorrow, we'll be picking up the cement blocks, laying the weed control fabric, cardboard, newspaper and beginning the building. The pavers will be in a pattern three wide all around for walking and weed control, and the planting bed will be four feet across and twenty four feet long.
After the garden is laid out, my husband said he'd also put my clothesline back in for me! Yeah! I think the kids have forgotten how to hang clothes; it's been down for so long. Trixie looks excited, doesn't she! |
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• Feb. 26, 2009 - More pics please
Show us how it's done strp by step, please.
Kelly