I did it!
17 trips to home depot, 47,000 splinters, and 2 hours of hammering/Mormon cursing (what the heck you flippin' flipper!!) has netted me a garden! A raised garden my friends.
Well, at least the beginnings of a garden. It's a little too early to plant everything that I want, but we've had a few rare warm days here and I had to get crackalakin' if I wanted to get started.
Did I mention I know NOTHING about gardening?
It may not be perfect in fact, it's definitely not, but I like it! Soon, we'll have fresh lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli, and 2 kinds of peas! Although I am a little confused on the peas right now. They were the only thing that I planted from seed and I might have forgotten where one kind ends and the other begins. It might be where that stick is that I put in the back of the bed, or maybe not. What an adventure this gardening business is!
I'd like to entitle this one "Life as a Cauliflower".Oh, note to husband:
Our hose is no bueno. When it gets kinked it backlogs out at the spigot in an out of control way. This back splash inadvertently doused the side of the house, patio, BBQ and possibly the kitchen through the screen door. Um, totally not my fault though.
Love,
your beautiful, domestic, attempting
to garden in righteousness wife
Gardening hasn't been our only project though!
More on this little monstrosity later...
You did a great job. I love DIY projects.
ReplyDeleteWoohoo square foot gardening! I'm trying one of those box things this season too! But your way ahead of me:) I'm SO excited to see you in less than month!
ReplyDeleteYou're a gardner now?!! That's awesome! (What no onions?) ;)
ReplyDeleteHey, no more painting pregnant lady.
ReplyDeletepizza and cracker jacks?
ReplyDeletegirl, you are cra-zy pregnant.
i love it.
...attempting to garden in righteousness? wow. just wow. ;)
ReplyDeleteDIY is amazazingly fun...I didn't mention that Jason put a new light in our kitchen and it said that it would take 35 minutes...it took all 2 hours between conference sessions! Ha ha ha!
ReplyDeleteI'm so impressed!
ReplyDeleteWay to go on the garden, I am impressed. I need to figure something out like that as well. Your backyard looks so nice, the grass so green. Hope you enjoy great veggies from that nice garden this summer!
ReplyDeleteMari, you always flippin' crack me up! Fetch!
ReplyDeletethat is so seriously awesome! i can't wait to see more photos of your progress. don't forget to ask around people who garden in your area. they will give lots of advice. and don't give up if you have a failure. i learn new stuff every year...♥
ReplyDeleteHey little gardener!!! I have 5 garden beds going right now! If you have any questions at all -- let me know. I've gained a lot of knowledge from trial and error ;) Good Luck! (I can totally relate to the whole '17 trips to home depot'!)
ReplyDeleteOK, blog stalker! I'm going to start reading your blog now! :) I didn't have any idea that you'd been reading our blog, but I'm mucho flattered! Tee hee. :) It looks like you and Tyson are doing well and I'm SO jealous you guys have a home of your own! That is so cool. It looks really nice. Can't wait til we get to that point. Oh, and congrats on the baby! I'm so excited for you! (Isn't "morning" sickness just lovely?)
ReplyDeleteI wish we had a garden. We did once and weeded it the first time when we initially planted, then didn't come back for.. oh, a few weeks. When we did get back to it, yes there was a lot growing there, but they were all weeds. Our poor little vegetables were overgrown and couldn't get any sunlight. Needless to say we amassed about four carrots and two ears of corn from all that work. The other oh-so-ridiculous thing about it was that when we were searching for seeds we just could not for the life of us find any potato seeds anywhere, how strange. Later we felt really stupid when we were told that you're actually suppose to plant potatoes. Yeah, forgot about that.
ReplyDeleteI most definitely am coming on May 2nd! I really want to see you! Good job with all the house projects, by the way. *Applause*
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