Our New Garden

I gotta say there is nothing quite as pretty as a garden even when the fencing is wire and t posts, even when there is hardly anything growing. Every time I catch a glimpse out of the corner of my eye I get a goofy grin on my face. I have been imagining how pretty our house will look with a garden up front, my imaginings came close! I can see why people make their entire front lawns into gardens. If you’ve ever seen the front of The Elliot Homestead THAT is something to aspire to. I can’t wait to see what it looks like full of plants!!

I am loving this beautiful little farmscape! (we are still working on covering the garden so ignore the grass)

As many of you probably know we have been planning on relocating our garden since the end of the season last year. Our previous garden didn’t seem to get enough sunlight so we made plans to move it to our front yard. Well it’s finally done! Not nearly to the scale we were hoping but we made the fencing out of T-posts and welded wire so it will be easy to expand for next year. Right now it’s about 530 sq ft but will be expanded to 4,000 sq ft in the future. I think that will be plenty of space to feed our future family.

Fencing in the garden wasn’t in the budget just yet. I jumped the gun and bought some organic plant starts at Home Depot (I had that spring itch). Then of course the very next day a duck killed one of the roma tomato plants and thus fencing was necessary IMMEDIATELY! Thankfully we were able to make it work and thus save our other plants, at least for now. So far the ducks have not attempted to get into the garden but we’ll have to see how that goes.

(One of the roma tomato plants)

We will still be planting in last year’s garden. There was an established blueberry plant in the back part of our fenced in yard and our dogs also like to tear it apart so the fence had to stay up anyway. Since cucumbers did relatively well there last year we will be planting a couple varieties of those plus a strawberry and pineapple plant, both of which are experiments.

(Supposedly you can plant the top of a pineapple and it will grow. We shall see....)

I'm extremely excited for this years gardening season. Fingers crossed it goes better than last year and we can actually try our hand at canning!!

How is your garden coming along?