Weekend Warriors

I've always wanted a garden. Jonathan and I have lived in our house for almost three years and every year I've said I wanted to plant a garden, and every year I get too lazy to do it. Well, not this year. Jonathan was on spring break this week so I took some time off and instead of going to Las Vegas, like we had planned, we stayed home and built a garden spot. I don't have any before pictures, but I have a lot of during and after pictures.

This is what we did Thursday morning. This is as far as we got in the morning because the ground was still frozen about 4 inches below the surface.

We took a break to let the ground warm up so we could break it up more.

Later that day Cornel Jr., Kage and Jaida came over and helped us.

This is my favorite picture. Kage is such a funny kid!

This is what it looked like after it thawed out and we were able to spread it around.

Then we put up a fence to keep the dogs out of it.

This is my manly husband pounding in the stakes for the fence. He's so strong! I love him :)

This is my lame attempt at pounding in a post.

And we finished! Friday we built planter boxes so I could try the Square Foot Gardening Method. Jonathan is skeptical about it so we're going to have a little competition, he's going to grow his corn in regular top soil and I'm growing it in the SFG Mel's Mix. We'll see in the fall who's corn turns out better. If worse comes to worse we'll have a lot of corn!

And I even got a little sunburned.