As mentioned previously, I am super excited to be able to have my own garden this year and area to make pretty flowerbeds. I am starting with my vegetable garden because it has priority for me…I want my own fresh veggies! So we have decided on an area of our back yard that will be tore up to accommodate my veggie patch. I’m going to do it in a curved shape to make the yard easier for Ethan to play in without taking over a huge chunk of it.
So this is the part of the backyard where it will go. It will go from the left stick going up the side of the shed in a curve to the edge of the picture where the fence is.
My raspberries are alongside the shed so I will leave a path in front of them that I can use to get to them and to behind the shed where I think my compost pile will go. As you can see, right now the compost is just piled on the lawn…it will just get worked into the garden spot next week. We are renting a rototiller next week and doing the hard work of breaking up the lawn for the garden. LOL, you know I mean Randy is doing the hard work of breaking up the lawn! I will be supervising!
I will also be planting veggies in a couple of beds that are around the house. It would cost me a small fortune to plant flowers in all of them so for this year at least they will be part of my veggie patch. In front of the house I will be planting my largest bed with tomatoes and herbs. My goal is to make salsa this summer with my crop of tomatoes! In the back yard there is a bed all along the side of the garage. I’m going to plant some flowers at either end of it but for most of it I will plant my peas. We’re going to staple some netting to the side of the garage so the peas can climb the side of the garage. It will look pretty and help out the peas!
In my main garden I’m planting a couple hills of potatoes (we are planting a huge potato patch at our friends’ acreage this weekend), a couple of squash plants and a few turnips. It will also have Lettuce, radishes, red & yellow onions, garlic, beets, swish chard, parsnips, carrots and possibly yams. I’m also going to start an asparagus bed this year, they take a few years to get going so I need to start now! I need to research them a bit more before planting them so that I find the right spot because they don’t get moved once planted! I’m also not expecting much from my garlic but I want to give it a try!
I won’t have a huge garden spot so rather than doing rows I’m going to plant in squares…we’ll see how that goes! I’ve been reading online and a lot of people with limited space do it this way. I don’t have room to put huge spaces for walking and weeding so squares should solve this problem!
I can’t wait to share photos of the garden as it grows this summer and am looking forward to playing in the dirt! Anyone have any comments on my plan? Do you think I have enough room to pull it off? Let me know, next week is the start line for it!
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