Gardening

Gardening season has begun at our house! This past Tuesday the garden was tilled and Wednesday we sectioned off all the plots for our beds. The whole garden is roughly 100ft long and 78ft wide. We have about 20-4ft wide, 50ft long beds. Each bed has 5ft of space inbetween so that we can fit the gator in...will make it handy for weeding/harvesting/watering the plants and beds.

When initially thinking about spacing of the beds then doing all the work to create the beds, I was stessing out! At first I wanted all RAISED (not yet wood framed) beds! Chris calls me an HGTV dreamer, and he's probably right. I dream of gardens like this: perfectly organized and beautiful..

I set out towards the field Wednesday morning with my shovel and started digging and raising my first bed..I got about 3-4ft in and looked at the length I still had to go and though "There is no way!" I'm going to brake my back! My sweet husband came out to see what I was up to and said 'Dear what are you doing! You don't want raised beds for the whole garden do you!?' I said 'Yes, I do! But, it's not going to happen, so what do I do now! What I wanted initially isn't going to work'. So he thought for a bit and then we divided the whole garden in half width wise, so that we would have a 5ft path thru the middle of it. Handy for the tractor or gator to get in. As we started doing this and moving onto separating the rest of the space length wise, we started creating 4ft beds with 5ft of space inbetween-again for the gator. How easy would this be to! After marking all our beds and paths with string and markers we drove the gator up and down each path, patting all the paths down. SO much easier than what I had planned. It was all done in about an hour.

Maybe some day I can have the garden of my dreams like above! With raised wood framed beds and stone paved paths. Even fencing all the way around. Fencing for our garden now will cost quite a bit and after forking out a lot of money for our chickens condo, we'll have to wait until the future for it. Slowly but surely I'll create this dream garden. I have to remember I can't always get what I want with the snap of my fingers. I'm sure the gardens above took quite a bit of time to make, things like that don't happen overnight. It's just so pretty isn't it!?

So Wednesday afternoon we started planting spinach, garlic, okra, peppers, strawberries and Isabella planted some flowers in her bed. Just planting these few things, it took quite a bit of time! Digging the small trenches, dropping the seeds carefully into each one and covering it back up, and then watering each row. So far we only have a tiny small portion of the garden taken up. Mind you, we have a lot of planting still to do. Theres corn to be planted, tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, peas, string beens, and onion. I already can't wait until things start coming in..to see the fruits of our labor will be a pretty sight.

You will eat the fruit of your labor;
blessings and prosperity will be yours.
Psalm 128:2