Saturday, April 25, 2009

Garden 2009

Today I planted our vegetable garden. First stop was Lowe's to get the supplies:

A few weeks ago Jesse and Todd tilled the soil. Thanks Tim Geisland for the tiller. Thanks Todd Thurston for your back.

I had to prepare the soil by raking out all the grass, and mixing in some bone meal as an organic fertilizer. By noon it was 90-something out, so I took a 6 or 7 hour break until the sun went down. :) Here is the prepared plot for our garden:

Finally time to plant the seeds and put up a fence so the dogs won't run through it!


This year we have tomatoes, pole beans, zucchini, yellow squash, cucumber, carrots, sweet pepper, corn and lettuce. I hope they all produce.
We'll post updates as things start to grow!

3 comments:

Greg said...

The back yard's looking nice. We hope we can come down later this summer and have fresh veggies!

Dad and Sherry (the running machine - she did a trail half marathon today!!)

Heidi said...

It all looks so great! Wow...you guys put in a lot of hard work. I sure do hope that everything comes up for you. How awesome to have all of those fresh vegetables right at your fingertips!

Love you guys,
Heidi

Unknown said...

Wow that turned our really good! I'm impressed! Can't wait to see how they turn out