Well, we just seem to keep getting snow or at least really cold weather...but it appears to be ending, so here we go!
The kids helped bring in the soil mixture we bought and started filling our barrels.
We've decided to do our garden at our house this year- we were considering 2 local garden co-ops in our new area, but after much thinking, we're going to keep it close- out the backdoor.
While we could dig up more of the backyard, as there is ample space, we've gone the easy route and just bought these barrels for the tomato plants (although now we wish we'd have gotten 4 instead of 2)
Here are the 4 tomato starts from Vitamin Cottage- great plants! This year we have 4 different varieties: Heirloom tomatoes, Early Girl, 100 Cherry, and regular Cherry tomatoes--grow girls, grow!
Once the tomatoes were settled in, we spend a whole day removing all of the gazillion rocks out of this prior hot tub bed! That was quite the chore, but now it is done and we've added and mixed up our good soil. It actually makes really neat garden beds, perfect for planting rows of veggies! Here Caleb is planting his cucumbers! Ben made an apparatus to allow the climbing cucumber vines to grow up. We reused this one from last year's tomatoes.
May God bless our garden again, as He has in the past years!
The kids helped bring in the soil mixture we bought and started filling our barrels.
We've decided to do our garden at our house this year- we were considering 2 local garden co-ops in our new area, but after much thinking, we're going to keep it close- out the backdoor.
While we could dig up more of the backyard, as there is ample space, we've gone the easy route and just bought these barrels for the tomato plants (although now we wish we'd have gotten 4 instead of 2)
Here are the 4 tomato starts from Vitamin Cottage- great plants! This year we have 4 different varieties: Heirloom tomatoes, Early Girl, 100 Cherry, and regular Cherry tomatoes--grow girls, grow!
Once the tomatoes were settled in, we spend a whole day removing all of the gazillion rocks out of this prior hot tub bed! That was quite the chore, but now it is done and we've added and mixed up our good soil. It actually makes really neat garden beds, perfect for planting rows of veggies! Here Caleb is planting his cucumbers! Ben made an apparatus to allow the climbing cucumber vines to grow up. We reused this one from last year's tomatoes.
May God bless our garden again, as He has in the past years!
