I've always had a desire to do gardening. But with fishing, astronomy, and aquarium...we'll did not want to take too much more from family life and be selfish. But Kim got the gardening bug from a project sponsored by her work at the Central Virginia Chapter of the Red Cross. WE found this neat website..... www.squarefootgardening.com that approached gardening a little differently, even to the point of not using our native soil in the backyard as the nurturing source. Anyway if you are interested in growing an abundant crop in a little space you should check out the site. I'll share the project we did today in a pictorial format. Once we got our stuff and got home today the actual project took no more than 4 hours from start to crops growing in our back yard.The 1st picture shows all the goodies we got to get started....Compost, peat moss, and vermiculite for the "Magic Mix", plants from The Red Cross, lumber from Lowes.
Well it is time to really get to work. Had been a cool, cloudy day until we actually began to work...then the sun came out and got a little warm. But that is ok, a little sweating never hurt anyone...has it? Kim's getting that magic mix going. If it works like we understand we should have a good supply of fresh veggies for the late summer and early fall and YOU can have some too....but it would be more fun to grow them yourself. I have tried to figure out how to put the Pics in the order I want, but you probaly can see I have not been very successful. Guess I'll have to get hold of my Blogger Guru Holly when she get back from Roanoke this evening. But you can sort of figure out the order and see the progress right down to the final product complete with growing already going on. I'm glad to see Kim take an interest in this, and it will for the most part be here project with me in the background for advice or more likely brute force as it is needed to dig, transport, or run off varmits as directed by the Director of Gardening, Mrs. Kim D. Brown. Also Happy Mother's Day out there to all those who are, are trying, in there hearts are, or like to think they are Mothers. It's your day, you deserve the best and I hope you get it. God Bless each and every one of you who truly understand the importance and impact Motherhood has on us all....kjb
2 comments:
Those are nice looking beds. They should do really well.In our old house, I used an old plastic sandbox for the kids garden and it never got weeds! I'm hoping to have some potted veggies on the deck this year. We'll take you up on the offer of fresh veggies!
Yep! Totally agree with Ellie! Can't wait to see the fruits of your labors:) They look even better in person than they do in the pictures! Thanks for documenting the process for the family to see! Love you both!
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