Garden Beginnings

We got our garden tilled today. We had a friend with a lawn tractor and rototiller attachment. It was fun to watch. This is my first real garden, although my husband grew up with yearly gardens.

We will be planting all kinds of good things to eat! I will be posting my garden plan later and will be updating with our garden fencing project, our initial planting, and other things.


Update: 06/08/12
Today we have been working on raking out the sod clods to get the garden ready. I hope it have it completely planted by next weekend. I will get my garden plan up soon. It is drawn out I promise. I just have to scan it!





Update: 06/18/12

We have our garden in rows and have planted a couple of crops.Our soil is pretty sandy, so next year, I think we will need to add a couple bags of topsoil (plus compost, of course). Since our soil is so dry and sandy, I wanted to make sure our seeds would sprout. I made 5 rows and planted green beans in one, carrots in another, and beets in another. The remaining two rows are for potatoes and sweet peppers (haven't planted them yet). I have been watering them regularly (3 times a day at least with this heat and very little rain we are getting here in Dexter, Mi).

--My 5 rows--

Two days ago, I saw the first sprouts! Lots of beets and carrots coming up and couple of beans! Today, I will be doing up the rest of the garden. I am very excited to get started on this!

 --My beet sprouts!! So excited--

--My carrot sprouts...they are a little harder to see, but they are there, I promise!--

And this morning (06/19/2012) I saw my beans coming up!