Garden in and everything planted! YEA!!! - Part Three

Well, the other two loads of dirt are in (we did them on Thursday, Allen Sr. had to work late, so we decided to surprise him and have both truckloads unloaded.  We almost had the second one done when he showed up.)  and on Friday, we planted.  We did a row each of the following:

Zucchini, Squash, Onions, Eggplant, Green Beans, and Green Peas.  We also planted in pots, two kinds of bell peppers, jalapeño peppers, cilantro, rosemary, lavender, and tomato's.  Our blueberry bushes we planted in the ground.  Our family is so excited and we had fun doing this project together.  The children loved helping to plant the seeds, and getting dirty.  This is definitely a learning experience for our family and we hope to learn more as we go along.  We are going to watch God nature at work.

The white is eggshells (for fertilizing) not seeds. :o)

Garden - Part two.

We are finally getting our dirt/soil this week.  So excited and ready to work.  We have been working in the yard for the past week or two, getting things ready when we can.  On Friday, I went and bought a large tomato plant and it already has 3 tomato's on it.    We are going to leave it on the patio in the planter, that is large enough for it.  We are also going to plant blueberry bushes.  Can't wait to see how that turns out.

We could only get two truck loads in last night (Tuesday) before they closed, we will get the other two later this week.  My Mother-in-law came over and helped us, my Mother was here already, she was not dressed to work, so she did other things for us and will help out later.  Allen Jr. and Makaela had a really good time helping out and enjoyed themselves. Then we will plant.  

As you can see by our pictures we had fun.  I also found part of a bird egg that must have come from the nest Allen found earlier.   More garden information to come later as we plant, etc. 

Getting our Garden started!

We did this a few weeks ago (Spring Break).  Forgot to post.

We have been trying to find time to work in our yard and get the garden started.  We had a idea of how we wanted it to look, but I have been reading and trying to figure everything out.   I also meant to take a book with me on our trip and forgot to pack it.  Since we live in a subdivision, we don't have an enormous place to put a large garden.  In fact, I'm going to plant some things in the black garden pots on our patio.

Allen went to the hardware store and got some supplies and this is what we did.  Made rectangle boxes for our garden.  We are going to have raised garden beds this year and see what happens.  Of course, our plans were to work on this some more, but it started raining (storming) so we stopped.

Can't wait to get our soil and seeds going.  Of course this is just a start.  More work ahead.  Also while working in the yard trimming bushes, Allen found this.....a birds nest.  It is really neat how they build them and what they use to build their nest.