Monday, April 21, 2008

Weekend Project


I'm a sucker for springtime activities. I started spring cleaning a couple of weeks ago, and was overrun by the clothing alone for 5 kids! So I had a yard sale Thursday and Friday to eliminate some of the clutter - just when I thought I had it out, Ken brought home stuff we forgot we had in storage. Aack! Anyways, I used the profits from the yard sale to create a vegetable garden along our "Scrapppers Sidewalk". My step-dad came over and helped me set it up. The yard sale wasn't good enough for a nice brick retaining wall, lol, I'll have to have a few more. So a day's hard work and a few hundred pounds of peat moss, compost, and top soil later . . . I have approximately 75 square feet of garden. Now, I've only ever successfully grown squash and flowers, so this is a huge venture for me. We planted a little bit of everything - tomatoes, squash, lettuce, carrots, radishes, onions, cilantro, cucumbers, etc. (we don't even eat radishes, but Billy insisted we plant them) I can't wait to see what grows!

4 comments:

Cheri said...

I'm LMAO. As if you don't have enough to do already, now you will add weeding the vegetable garden to your list of chores! yikes. Hope it all grows great!

Krystal Hartley said...

NO watermelon? I thought all southern gardens had to have watermelon. Maybe it's the wrong time of year...what do I know...we had a garden when I was in junior high and I HATED it!

Jan said...

That's great!!! I hope you have great success with it! I kill everything I try to grow! LOL!

Izzy said...

Keep us posted on how your garden is growing.. good for you, I love to garden, it's a great feeling to enjoy the veggies you've grown.