Evolution of the garden! (Very pic heavy)

[hippywife]

Need to get back in there and redistribute the mulch the storms have displaced. And build a scarecrow. The two large plants are a pepper and a tomato that a friend gave me. So far we have carrots, mesclun, lettuce, spinach, onions, turnips, beets, and potatoes sprouting. :bounce:



























We'll just call this one "Wishful thinking!" :rofl:




Thanx for lookin'! :hi:

[amerikat]

1. Looks great, nice pics too

I'm doing a square ft. garden also. My first attempt at it. The wooden box is built 4' X 10'. I get my compost and vermiculite on wednesday. I took pics while building the box then my camera quit(canon will fix it for free even though it's out of warranty) I'll borrow a camera to document the rest of the project and post a how to thread. I built a cover with hemlock and poultry wire to keep the critters away until the plants are well established. Good luck with your garden.

[hippywife]

2. Thanx!

It's our first attempt at the square foot method, too. We got salvage cedar boards to build them. The dogs are now not allowed in the garden since they started digging in one of the boxes that thankfully wasn't planted yet. We put some salvaged heavy gauge welded wire fence around it that is a little higher than the original fence so they can't jump over it. Our older dog got in last year and killed the chickens. Ain't happening this year. The pen now has three layers of fencing and alot more posts, plus barbed wire.

Good luck with yours, too. Post those pics once your camera is fixed. :hi:

[amerikat]

3. I have no dogs.........but

The cats thought I was building them the wolds biggest litter box. Really they just seem to ignore the whole thing and I think they will keep the wild critters at bay.

[hippywife]

9. I hope they do

keep ignoring it. :hi:

[knitter4democracy]

4. Nice chickens. :)

They look really healthy and happy.

We just finished up the first two planters today, and I put in the tomatoes that survived my seedling experiment (most everything died for some reason that I can't figure out) and beans, peas, cukes, and lettuce. I'm going to call around and see who here has herbs and such yet. I'm having a hard time believing the square foot gardening thing works, but the planters were so easy to work in that I figure it's worth the ol' college try.

[hippywife]

10. They are only

nine weeks old at this point. Looking forward to nice eggs in the future.

I gotta believe it's going to. Our problem has never been getting a garden started and sprouting. We always have problems making it too harvest...too little rain, too much rain, too many weeds. Trust me, 100 degrees of pure Oklahoma heat doesn't inspire one to go weed the garden, ya know?

Wishing you much success with yours! :hi:

[knitter4democracy]

11. You too!

I agree--we have that nasty humidity, and boy, I don't like to weed when it gets like that. Ugh. I hope this method really does mean less weeding. :)

[sazemisery]

5. Wow, lookin' good!

I see that after a little bit of bending over those beds the all important stool has taken up residence in the garden. The dog seems to be quite helpful at using his mind control to tell you SO where to plant what. And the new puppy is trying out his cognitive will on the chickens! Can't wait to see your scarecrow.


I "played" in the yard all weekend! I planted the asparagus, tomatoes and basil. I transplanted flat leafed parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.:nopity:
I moved more rocks to the "dry creek". I transplanted many flowers from one area of the garden to another. I am taking Earth Day off to plant cucumbers, squash, peppers, okra and corn and whatever else I can get accomplished.
:hi:

[hippywife]

8. I wish I could have stayed home today, too.

Your garden was the inspiration behind mulching around the beds. Rather than just putting the weed barrier under the boxes, I wanted to keep all grasses out altoghter. So the fabric covers the garden and the mulch over top of that. Those hard rains sent a river running through the garden both times so the hubband has had to respread it twice. We need to divert the water around the garden.

I can't wait to see your finished dry creek. I really like the idea. That could be a good way to accomplish diverting that water!

So far, the weekends have been too busy to put together a scarecrow but hopefully I'll get to it soon. These guys are sitting out there tho. LOL

[sazemisery]

12. Well, I had to go to the "real JOB" instead of ..

frolicking with the flowers. I love the frogs.

The dry creek is on hold til the guy gets a price on the river rock. I am not really diverting water, I'm channeling it the way it already goes and am doing all this back breaking work so it will quit washing away the top soil, so Mr saze won't mow near my green house and punch little holes in it with the debris from the mower deck and because I like diversity of landscape.

I'll take pictures when I get the whole place tidied up which will be weekend after next. Our anniversary is this weekend and we rented a cabin on the lower Illinois River. We'll trout fish, eat and wonder how 32 years of togetherness went by so fast!
:hi:

[hippywife]

13. Congrats!

32 years! Wow! I really hope you have a great time. I would love to go trout fishing! DH keeps promising me the best breakfast ever...trout seared with butter over a campfire. Still haven't had it after almost 11 years. LOL

I'm looking forward to those pics! :hi:

[Imalittleteapot]

6. Oh goody.

You're going to have chicken poop for fertilizer.

Where do you live?

[hippywife]

7. South of

Tulsa. Yeah, there'll be lots of that to shovel into the compost pile. :hi:

[jillan]

14. Ha! I love the last pic of the dog looking at the chickens.

Great pics.

[Shoelace]

15. oh how I miss our chickens!

we used to live on a farmette and now we live in the city. At one time or another, we had up to 30 chickens not counting the Banty hens that ran loose and reproduced like crazy. The Banty hens and their brood were great at eating bugs so that was a good thing.

Everytime I see a henhouse, I get so nostalgic. Chickens are wonderful little creatures. Great pics and do hope you can post more as the garden progresses.
It's inspiring. :yourock: