Oh, I just noticed that I haven't shared pictures of the garden in a while! Here, for your springtime enjoyment, is our garden:
My Honey spent an hour and made me a sturdy trellis.
Here it is completed, with the sisal rope for the plants to climb.
I found these two barrels to hold sun-warmed water for the garden at a garage sale for only $2.50 each!
Doesn't the thought of fresh peas make you hungry?
We have finished the garden box! Planting begins on the morrow!
Since we are beautifying the place, we continued the garden walkway to connect the patio and BBQ.
And the remaining area will be rocked in with lovely salt and pepper granite. We got the first load today, and will get another tomorrow. Thereafter, each week we will get one load and continue until we are finished. It's hard work, but with many hands, work is finished fast!
My Honey has been working hard almost daily after work. I'll be glad when it's all done. We hope to have it finished before it gets too hot.
We went and picked up the 70 blocks we needed to make the main garden bed. We used the remaining landscaping fabric we had (and had to go to Costco for more, darn it) and laid out the west, north and south walkways. Then Jimmy built up the walls. Tomorrow after church I will be putting down a second layer of landscaping fabric inside the bed, plus cardboard and newspapers, and will finish the east walkway. Monday or Tuesday (and I'm voting for Monday!) we will get the compost and soil mixture that we will be filling it with.
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!
I'm the blessed wife of My Honey of 14 years, and Momma to eight wonderful Lambies aged 13 and under. We live in Central CA, and use Ambleside Online for our curriculum. I'd love to meet you , so browse a while and feel free to leave a comment!
