I wanted to share something exciting. I now have a 25'x25' inground garden!! This is in addition to the raised beds that I already have. This is such a blessing. My Brother-in-law owns the house next to ours and since no one ever uses the huge side yard next to it, he is allowing us to put a garden there.
As soon as Eric told me he said yes, that we could dig the garden, wheels started turning in my head. I knew we had to till the yard, and Eric wasn't thrilled that he would have to do it, so I went to Craigslist and I found a local fire fighter that had an ad that said he tills with his big tractor, so I contacted him. He came the next day and it literally took him 10 minutes to go over the area 5 times to get the dirt nice and light! AND it cost less than us renting a tiller.
An hour later I had the garden plotted/roped off and it is now ready to be fenced (to keep those dang squirrels away!) and planted.
I knew almost immediately what I wanted to plant there, were the things that did not grow well in my raised beds last year, since we have limited sun around our house. I will be planting organic Silver Queen corn, organic Delectable bi-color corn, DiCicco broccoli, Roma tomatoes, Black zucchini, and sunflowers. Thank God that more Roma tomatoes came up in my growing room than I had originally anticipated, so all I had to start this week was the broccoli and the zucchini. Also a few weeks ago on Facebook, the Frugal Farmers page posted a few helpful hints on planting corn, such as taping your shoe so you know how far to plant each seed and also use a 5' PVC pipe to put the seed down, so you don't have to keep bending over. There is a wealth of information out there and I feel so blessed to learn something new almost everyday.
On my garden graph there is still a 4'x20' space that I want to plant new and interesting things in. I am thinking I am going to go to the Simon Organic Farm Plant Sale in a month and hopefully get Copenhagen Market cabbage, Prize Choi bok choi, Butternut Brown Cotton, Sungold cherry tomato, and Jubilee tomato to grow.
On a side note, I have also listed on Craigslist that the trees on that piece of property need to be taken down. If someone wants to take them down, they get all the wood. I have already had 1 person contact me, so hopefully, they take all the trees, because I would like to start a few fruit trees, so we can be that much closer to not have to rely on food provided by the grocery stores. I have already selected what I would like to grow. These are all dwarf sized so I can have many varieties in the space we have. Harglow Apricot, Redhaven Peach, Empire Apple, Pink Lady Apple, Gala Apple, Bartlett Pear, and Moonglow Pear. Eventually I'd like to have a variety of grapes, gooseberries, roses and blueberries also, but that will be a few years from now.
Phew! I think I have my work cut out for me this summer. What do you think?
As soon as Eric told me he said yes, that we could dig the garden, wheels started turning in my head. I knew we had to till the yard, and Eric wasn't thrilled that he would have to do it, so I went to Craigslist and I found a local fire fighter that had an ad that said he tills with his big tractor, so I contacted him. He came the next day and it literally took him 10 minutes to go over the area 5 times to get the dirt nice and light! AND it cost less than us renting a tiller.
An hour later I had the garden plotted/roped off and it is now ready to be fenced (to keep those dang squirrels away!) and planted.
I knew almost immediately what I wanted to plant there, were the things that did not grow well in my raised beds last year, since we have limited sun around our house. I will be planting organic Silver Queen corn, organic Delectable bi-color corn, DiCicco broccoli, Roma tomatoes, Black zucchini, and sunflowers. Thank God that more Roma tomatoes came up in my growing room than I had originally anticipated, so all I had to start this week was the broccoli and the zucchini. Also a few weeks ago on Facebook, the Frugal Farmers page posted a few helpful hints on planting corn, such as taping your shoe so you know how far to plant each seed and also use a 5' PVC pipe to put the seed down, so you don't have to keep bending over. There is a wealth of information out there and I feel so blessed to learn something new almost everyday.
On my garden graph there is still a 4'x20' space that I want to plant new and interesting things in. I am thinking I am going to go to the Simon Organic Farm Plant Sale in a month and hopefully get Copenhagen Market cabbage, Prize Choi bok choi, Butternut Brown Cotton, Sungold cherry tomato, and Jubilee tomato to grow.
On a side note, I have also listed on Craigslist that the trees on that piece of property need to be taken down. If someone wants to take them down, they get all the wood. I have already had 1 person contact me, so hopefully, they take all the trees, because I would like to start a few fruit trees, so we can be that much closer to not have to rely on food provided by the grocery stores. I have already selected what I would like to grow. These are all dwarf sized so I can have many varieties in the space we have. Harglow Apricot, Redhaven Peach, Empire Apple, Pink Lady Apple, Gala Apple, Bartlett Pear, and Moonglow Pear. Eventually I'd like to have a variety of grapes, gooseberries, roses and blueberries also, but that will be a few years from now.
Phew! I think I have my work cut out for me this summer. What do you think?
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