Garden time!

Ah yes, it is that time of year again! For the past four years I have attempted to grow plants outside in containers which has not always worked that well. This year as I was shopping with my good friend Amanda we came to the conclusion that we should half the cost of supplies and grow a garden in her back yard! I cannot say how happy I am to have a friend that has volunteered her yard as a spot to garden! So, we headed to wal mart and picked up some jiffy mini greenhouses. They are plastic "greenhouses" that have sections in them to start your seeds. We purchased several seed packets each and have planted our seeds! So far this is what we have:

cucumbers
zucchini
tomatoes
watermelon
cantaloupe
corn
basil
oregano
carrots
spinach
strawberries
potatoes
and lima beans

Yes, it is quite a lot, but we picked so many different plants so we will have a good variety even if some of them do not work out. Tonight Amanda and I went out and dug shallow trenches about five feet long and two feet apart. We are going to mix the dirt from these trenches with fertilizer and make mounds for our plants to grow on. This should give us plenty of walking space between our plants when they start to grow. Our goal is to keep the garden as organic as possible and we are going to try not to use any miracle grow or pesticides. Our garden may end up with miracle grow and simply be pesticide free (esp. considering that we did not buy organic seeds) but we will see how it goes. The tomatoes we are growing in their own row against the fence so they can vine up against it and the corn has its own section on the back of Amandas property. Hopefully our plants will start to grow soon and we can transplant them to the garden the week of Easter sometime. I will take pictures once we have the soil mixed and placed in our nice trenches. Oh, did I mention that Amanda had tons of rocks just sitting around so we took them and painted the names of each plant on them? Now we have cute little rock tags for our garden rows!