OUR GARDEN

It was brought to my attention that I am neglecting my blog. I usually have a lot to say, but lately my life has been way too busy and full to even get a chance to think!

Kaylee and I decided we wanted to plant an awesome garden this year. We have been sprouting seeds and planning for several weeks, and finally, we started to plant! I got a tiller for Mother's Day four years ago which makes tilling up the garden a breeze... usually. This year I couldn't get the thing to start. After listening to a lengthy lecture from Jeff about how I probably didn't empty the gas from it last fall, and how I probably haven't checked the oil, he finally agreed to take a look at it. In my defense, I DID empty the old gas to the best of my ability or knowledge (same as every year), and I had checked the oil. I also checked the spark plug. Not to mention that I'd been able to fix a little issue with it last spring all by myself! So when I finally did ask Jeff for help, I'd made sure I really had tried everything. Of course he got it fixed (he always does), but not before taking the whole thing apart and giving it a good tune-up.

Next step was to till the whole garden. Our plan was to have four sections, two on the upper level with a cute meandering path to divide them, and two on the lower level with a wider path to the garden shed between them. So far we've been able to get half the winding path done, put in a cute little pond, plant a couple of our starts and seeds, and build a teepee to support our cucumbers. We also bought a length of cute little black plastic fence to divide the garden from the path to the chicken coop. Kaylee will have one of the four sections all to herself where she can plant whatever she loves most. One whole section will be just for squash. I plan to have lots of tomatoes, some peas, beans and lettuce. And of course we need a few herbs mixed in. I'm pretty excited about our garden. I will take some pics when we get more done! Hopefully in a couple of months our garden will look something like the picture above.