Garden in September...turning to Fall

Lots of tomatoes, a whopping 2 cucumbers, lots of pretty Zenias, Marigolds, & Sunflowers, carrots, lettuce, broccoli, strawberries, corn (though not edible this year), lots of green beans, over a dozen pumpkins, several watermelons, 2 spaghetti squash, jalapeno peppers, basil, chives, onions, rhubarb, & garlic!
Still a lot of work to do to continue to amend the poor soil...we've added lots of new earthworms and composted all summer long!

 

August...the garden grew, but no pics...we've got more important flowers to tend to!

Grandma with baby Samuel out in the yard with Sage (hiding under the stool)

Here are more cuties:
Cousin Holland and Caroline

Crazy Elisa Joy!
 

A BABY grew in our garden!

JULY: We have a new BABY BOY!!!
No working in the outdoor garden for us...thankfully Aunt Jen stayed behind to tend the weeds while we are in Mississippi tending to this precious little baby, our baby Samuel!

 

The Garden is Growing!

Garden scenes:

More progress:

Our newly laid sod is greening up well with all of this rain!
Too much though, at least for this muddy garden soil. Look at the puddles!
We have the drip line installed and have transplanted some of the perennials (onions, chives, strawberries, rhubarb, and other flowers. We've also been able to get the boarder bushes in and a little mulch:

The kids also worked on Grandma & Grandpa's little garden area at their apartment...this was a surprise for Grandma:

 

 

Early "After" pictures of the garden relocation and remodel!

View from above during the action...the bobcat came and moved out all of the weeds, rocks, and junk!

our SOD pile! Whoo-whoo!

its coming along!
We hired help and they were awesome!

see our little observer perched on the railing? :)

he stayed put for quite awhile!

TA-Da!!!!!

a ZILLION times better!

doesn't it look nice?!!?

You can see where the new GARDEN will be!

We love it already!

more grass shots

Caleb checking out the seams of grass where the new grass met up with the new grass
 

Garden 2011-Some pics of "Before" the garden relocation and remodel

This huge above ground pool came with our house, but was not being used for several reasons. It was in a good location...for a GARDEN!

Grandpa came from FL to help with some major projects while Ben was away for 2 weeks on business. This pool removal project was at the TOP of the list!

How exciting...its going DOWN!

Joshua and Caleb were eager to help Grandpa- they amazingly knocked this project out in 2 days!
The deck had been built around the pool edge and we wanted to get rid of that too

the little workers!

Down with the aluminum pool!
We ended up taking it to a recycling company and making a little $$$

it was a BIG job...a heavy one too!

The new garden is going to be spacious!

this area wraps around the left side of our house and gets lots of sun, as there are no trees on this side:
We laid out the aluminum and it was something like 90 feet long!

it kept going and going...

ahh...its gone!
Still lots of work to do to get rid of the rocks and amend the soil, but its progress

looking better

we repainted the deck and hot tub too!

this is the garden site from last year...we planned to sod this wasteland!