My Garden

Oh, what have I gotten myself into!  I've never had a garden before and this year I decided to give it a try.  I've been told that a garden has never done well on top of our hill, but what the heck, I thought I'd give it a try anyway!

I casually mentioned to my husband yesterday that I wanted to get started on my garden and that I needed his help moving a few things.  So all of a sudden yesterday evening he got a place cleared and said his dad was on his way to till it up for me so I needed to figure out how big I wanted it.

How big?  I have no clue!  My mother-in-law said it can get big real fast and I didn't want anything that I couldn't handle for my first year.  So I mowed a spot to mark where I wanted it to be and my father-in-law started tilling away.  Kevin even brought him a couple of loads of manure so it should be nice and fertile ground!

Well, I'm not sure if it's a "big" garden or not.  I guess I'll see once I get everything planted.  Kevin suggested planting sweet corn along the south side of the garden to help as a wind break.  So I'll give that a try.  We (as in me and HD) are going to plant some tomato plants, green beans, sweet corn, a few different kinds of peppers and squash and maybe some carrots and onions too!  I'll just have to see what looks good when I go buy some plants/seeds.

I'm hoping the weather and HD cooperate this week, as I would like to spend a few evenings getting it all planted.  I'll post some more pictures when I'm done and keep you up-to-date as to how it is going!  Wish me luck!