Making progress...

See our progress!

Paul worked hard while I was at a meeting tonight.

Tomorrow night, we fill and plant!

Note bridal wreath spirea in the background--in bloom!

This will be our strawberry box!

Box #2--full sun


Box #3--right by the back door
Full sun for a lot of the day--partly shady for a little of the day


Question of the day: Why does my yard look better than the inside of my house?

Making plans...

GUESS WHAT WE'RE DOING!

Last year, I watched in awe as my sister and sister-in-law built (with the help of wonderful husbands) square-foot gardens. They looked great and the harvest looked even greater.

I took note of the website and this year I showed it to my landscape-loving husband. In the past, he's not been completely enthusiastic about a garden spot. Oh, he loves gardening--but a square vegetable garden set in rows is not as asthetically pleasing to the eye as he wants it to be.

He tried integrating vegetable plants into the landscape. This worked okay, but the soil was less than desirable for growing the vegetables and only putting a few here and there between bushes did not yield a very prolific crop.

When I showed him the square-foot gardens, however, his eyes lit up in an"Aha!" moment. They got wider when he saw the ones made out of vinyl. He immediately saw the potential in this project and is enthusiastically preparing to plant with me!

Stay tuned for more...