Thursday, April 14, 2011

Bringing Dreams to Life

     This past winter, we decided to move our vegetable garden.  One thing leads to another.  When we built the garage, we created a space perfect for a garden room.  And the perfect place for a kitchen garden.  It is close to the back door, which is in the kitchen.  This called for a whole new plan, and created a great gardening opportunity.  Above is the general layout, except that our space is 52 feet wide and 40 feet long, so our layout is an ellipse rather that a circle.  Thank you, Lord, for my darling draftsman, who can lay out a perfect ellipse of any size. :D
     So we are putting a decorative compost bin in the center.  This will become a bench and plants later, but we just have too many other projects in the works to do a bench now.
     We have tilled two of the eight planting areas (sections A and B above).  The first is already planted to potatoes and onions.  Because tomorrow is Good Friday, and everyone knows that potatoes must be planted then.
     I am very glad that the second planting area is done.  It covers an area that was part of an old foundation, and we had to dig out huge rocks.  Exciting to see our plans happening!

3 comments:

  1. Very cool! Does the snow help the potatoes?

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  2. I really don't know - "snow helps release the nitrogen from the ground" - so says my expert farmer sitting in the next recliner - :lightening also does this - perhaps it has something to do with ozone in the air" - It is really wonderful to have a living encyclopedia in the house. :D

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  3. All of the sections are tilled, soil amended, and ready to plant. :D The potatoes are peeking out of the ground and the onions are 4-6 inches tall. Two days ago we planted cabbage, yellow wax beans and marigolds in the same section on the east. Yesterday, in the west section, we planted zucchini, cauliflower, black bush beans, carrots, carnations and cornflowers. Everything in this area will be edible, including the flowers. We plant and harvest - God gives the abundance. :D

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