Our First Garden

We finally planted our very first garden!  This is something we have been wanting to do every year but it just has never happened.  This year we learned about square foot gardening and we decided to make it happen.  I read the book "All New Square Foot Gardening" by Mel Bartholomew and we put his methods to the test.  I couldn't pass up the idea that we wouldn't ever have to fertilize, weed much, or prepare the soil each year.  Our two boxes should give us a lot to eat this summer (we'll see!).  

The boys were so excited that we were going to have a garden and even more excited to help Matt pull out the tools on Family Night.

 

We took an evening to mix the soil "Mel's Mix" and get the boxes all prepared.  Daxton, Bradin, and Austin had fun smooshing up the chunks of peat moss with their hands.  

The boys helped us pick out the plants at the nursery and helped a little in the planting. The soil is so light that it didn't take us long.  Now we wait to see if we really can get things to grow!