Last year we planted our first garden. Grandpa Jim was nice enough to lend us some of his yard. In the fall, he was nice enough to enlarge the space. We started working in the garden on Sunday. Of course, we weren’t able to do it last week when it was nice & warm outside. We did some tilling. Nick & I helped pick up sticks in Grandpa Jim’s yard while we waited to start planting. We planted 4 rows of peas, 2 rows of potatoes, a row of onions and 12 asparagus plants. Last year our peas didn’t grow (I think we put them in too late). We are trying potatoes and onions for the first time. The asparagus is a first as well and was a request from Bean. I think we are done until the middle of May now. We have corn, watermelon, pumpkin, cantaloupe, bush green beans, carrots, cucumbers and radishes to plant. We’ll buy tomato, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and pepper plants. Maybe I’ll try some sweet potatoes again. Last year we had some “friends” eat the sweet potato, broccoli, cauliflower & lettuce plants. We are putting up a little fence/barrier this year. There should also be a strawberry harvest this year. If not, I’m going to be mad! We planted like 75 strawberry plants last year and they are supposed to bear fruit this year. Anyone have any tips for planting pumpkin seeds? Ours did not grow last year. I’m hoping that maybe I just waited too long to get them in the ground. If you’ve got any gardening tips, let me hear them!
My first time running a tiller:
Nick helping with some old logs:
Jim helping with tilling:
Fresh tilled earth…yum:
Scott hoeing us a row for onions:
Nick & I planting onions:
Jim getting potatoes ready to plant & Scott planting peas:
The strawberry patch is just on the other side of Jim:
Putting in the potatoes:
The asparagus:
Nick throwing down some fertilizer:
