FALL GARDEN

On Monday David and I planted our first vegetable garden! We were pretty stoked. Down here the soil is really poor. Well it's not really soil. It's more along the lines of clay. Friends of ours that have gardens in this area usually do these square by square gardens. Since we have the space from removing our above ground pool, and the wood we kept when we removed the attached deck and some compost and soil, we decided to go for it. I measured it all out and David cut up the boards and used the old screws to hold the wood together. We lined the wood with cleaned sections of our old pool liner. So the entire garden is pretty much re-purposed material. While we did have to purchase some seeds I had saved some acorn squash and red bell pepper seeds. SO we planted: carrots, peas, green beans, broccoli, red bell pepper, jalapeno, tomato, cantaloupe, acorn squash and cucumbers. We already have little sprouts! We planted the tomato and jalapeno as little plants and they have grown some already also. Anyway we are pretty excited about the prospect of picking our own vegetables in about 50-75 days. If this plot does well, we hope to do a second in the winter. One nice thing about this area: 4 planting seasons!