Getting Our Garden Started
Over the past week or so I’ve been busy prepping our vegetable garden. I’m using the area on the south side of my house which meant I needed to transplant some shrubs first. After I got the shrubs transplanted, I tilled the previous side garden bed and some of the yard. I ended up with a plot about 30 feet by 12 feet.
I was able to get out Tuesday this week and get some of the weeds raked out that were left over after tilling. I spread 20 bags of topsoil and tilled that under before it rained Thursday night. We got a good soaking rain last night and some more tonight hopefully. I do want to test the soil in another few days once the ground begins to dry up a bit.
Since its still too early for most plants, I have some peat pots inside to get things started in. In a few weeks I should be able to get things moved outside to my cold frames for another few weeks before its warm enough to transplant. I’m still in the planning stages of what’s going to go where and I need to finish soon since there are a few cold weather crops that I can get planted soon.
I also built a compost bin out of some old scrap wood. I’ll post more on that later as well as some photos of the garden.
