How Does Your Garden Grow?

Mary Mary quite contrary,

How does your garden grow?

With silver bells and cockle shells

And pretty maids all in a row.

I started my square foot garden finally.. here is what my chosen spot looked like when I began preparing the soil. Hard as a rock, dry, just not happy soil it was....


Until I added my Magic Ingredient, Liquid Compost! Yep, it's a green smoothie for soil made of water and all the odds and ends of fruits and veg past their prime. I throw the mess into the Vita Mix and Viola! instant compost that my soil Loves!

Green Compost Smoothie!

After doing that and turning the soil every few days for about two weeks, it was time to add the border of old bricks we have all over the place here.


I stacked them all around, then added two bags of Armstrong Organic compost to my existing soil.



Does this look like a plant's dream or what??

Our first resident is Mr. Japanese Tomato, but he got a bit lonely out there....

Handsome Mr. Japanese Tomato
So Farmer Sam and I started a baby nursery, baby plants that is.. I will let Sam tell you all about it in this quick video:



Here is our nursery before planting:

Aren't they precious?

We're Waiting!!!!
And now we wait, just a little impatient, like Toad in "The Garden".. we just want them to grow now!!!!

GROW NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

'Toad put in alot of effort to make his seeds grow he tried forcing them to grow by shouting at them. This did not work, Frog told him he was making to much noise to just leave them get some rain and sun and they would grow.' from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad Together

 
What are your gardening plans for the summer?

 do tell us...




Happiness and Whirled Peas to all,
Deb and Sam