Our First Garden

So we have lived quite a few places since we have been married and this is our first home that has the potential for a garden.  We decided to take advantage of it and try our hand at gardening.

This is our garden space in our backyard.  It doesn't look like much, but we are going to make it great.

We started digging out all the weeds and rocks.  It really isn't the best place for a garden.  Our neighbors said that it used to be a rock garden, so there really were lots of rocks that made it much harder to dig.  But it became a good family project.

Will bought little shovels for Rachel and Whitney to use.  Rachel could only handle using the shovel for a couple minutes and then she would just start throwing dirt around - quite entertaining.

Continuing to dig and making it bigger.

Will has some work gloves that have been great for all the rocks and thorny weeds, so Whitney wanted gloves too.  She doesn't have any work gloves, but insisted on using her winter ones.  It didn't take long before she decided the gloves were too dirty and not useful.

This is our final garden space.

My mom gave us some seeds that we could use for our garden.  We planted two kinds of lettuce, corn, pumpkin, cantaloupe, onion, and sunflowers.  I hope that something grows with all the work we have put into it so far.  We will keep you posted on what happens.

Thanks for all the gardening advice from our parents who have a lot more experience with growing vegetables.  I hope we will get some fresh veggies in a couple of months.