I Have A Garden!

I have never been much of a gardener.

I hate dirt, don't get along with heat, & am allergic to the out-of-doors in general.

Besides that, nearly everything we have planted in the past 24 years has died.

However, I LOVE fresh produce.

In the past our summer garden has consisted of a few tomato & zucchini plants stuck into a weedy patch behind our old (now deceased & buried) shed. I refused to step a foot into it.

This year, however, we decided to try our hand at

SQUARE FOOT GARDENING.

I really liked the idea of a garden that is weed-free, requires very little water, & no hoeing is necessary.

Sounds too good to be true?

Well, we'll let you know what the results are at the end of the season.

Clive built the boxes & lined them with landscape cloth.

I stomped on the peat moss to compact into just the right amount of cubic feet.

We stirred up the mixture of equal parts of peat moss, compost, & vermiculite,


then shovelled it into the wheelbarrow

and moved it to the back yard

where we filled the boxes, watered, & raked until they were filled.

Clive nailed on the grids & built the trellises & then I planted the crops ... tomatoes, 4 types of lettuce, carrots, cabbage, sweet peppers, jalapeno peppers, sweet onions, green onions, beets, radishes, bush beans, peas, zucchini, crookneck squash, baby watermelon, & pumpkin. We tried potatoes, too, but a neighborhood cat dug them up! I added a few flowers into the mix, too. The vine crops will grow on the trellises. We also planted strawberries & herbs alongside our new, improved shed.

We'll add photos of the progress of the garden as the season advances. I can't wait!