Gardening

We have been working on the gardens each weekend and it has been some hard work!
We are first working on the septic tank mess.

Here is the before where we started outlining the garden with the free bricks we got. You can see all the dirt is where they dug for the septic and it's just a mud pit! My motto is, where's there's mud there's a potential garden! :-)



Here is over the drain field for the septic tank. I'm going to try and put in a huge drought tolerant perennial bed. I was going to try and do it all this year but I think my dreams are bigger than my or Mike's energy. You can see he started rototilling in the front and then the tiller broke. We are going to have to wait until we can fix it to get the rest done. It's just too hard to hand dig. BJ is going to put his Giant Pumpkins in the back.

This is after we got the compost filled in. We just decided to do everything as raised beds because the ground is such hard clay it's not worth digging unless we dig it out. We are going to cut down the septic tank vents so they don't stick out so much. All that is right on top of the septic tank where they put in the new one.
This is our raised beds for our veggies. We are going to do 4 this year and then if we need more later we will add them. I am doing my favorite method of gardening, Square Foot Gardening. It is SOOO much less work than traditional gardening!

Of course my wonderful husband did all the digging to get the bed straight and hauling and filling in with compost. He has worked hard but once it's in then it's easy!

For all the paths we are putting down newspaper or card board and then mulching with free wood chips.


That's our start for this year!
Tawra