Not much to talk about today. We bought some stuff for the forthcoming vegetable garden. We got a combination hoe and cultivator, with an extendable handle, which is pretty cool, and we also got some trellis type things that will go in the cucumber pots. We still need to buy pots, and some soil and fertilizer, but we're planning to do that tomorrow. And then on sunday we're going to rent a honda tiller from Home Depot to clear the land for my garden, and the herb garden sabrina is making. It's too bad that we don't have more land to do, because it would make it really easy. We don't really need a giant garden though.
I've got a little diagram for how big my garden will be, and how I'm going to divide it. Once it stops raining I'll stake it out so I can see what it'll look like, and where I have to run the tiller. That'll probably end up being on sunday, since it is supposed to rain part of tomorrow, and we have more shopping to do, which will take most of the day anyway. I have to decide what I am going to put around it too. I need some sort of edging for it, or something similar. I don't want my new soil to get washed away, and I don't want grass to grow into it any more than necessary. The less I have to weed it the better.
I can't decide if I want to plant everything at once, or do a little each week so I have stuff ripen at different times. It'd be nice to make it last longer, but at the same time the garden is so small it seems silly to plant it over time. I'll have to decide by monday or tuesday, whichever I end up planting the seeds.
I hope it all goes well. We'll have to take pictures of the construction as we go.
Posted by Jesse Walton at April 12, 2003 03:50 AM