Garden Project - Part 1

I hope this is a continuing series from now until the end of the summer about our much anticipated vegetable garden. When Griffin and I were in Hilton Head, Dallas had a project and that was to build us a raised vegetable garden in the backyard. While the weather did not cooperate very well, he did manage to get most of it built on a 40 degree Sunday afternoon 2 weeks ago.



We need three cubic yards of compost/dirt to fill the sucker up. I've found the place to get it, but have yet to order said dirt. We do have a large compost pile but it will not come close to filling in the bed. We'll just put our compost on top of whatever we get delivered.

So Saturday morning I ventured to Menards (for those of you in the South who have no idea what a Menards is, it's the same thing as a Home Depot or Lowes.) I purchased three little "green houses" and "cells" to plant our seeds in. We have 120 cells and 7 packages of seeds. Some of the seeds were no bigger than a pin head. And some packages only came with 20 seeds. But we got a bunch planted and have been excitedly watching them sprout. Broccoli sprouted in just three days. Alyssum has also sprouted already. We are told things shouldn't go into the ground here until around May 1st. So in the meantime, Griffin is having fun looking at the seedlings throughout the day and misting them with a spray bottle.

I sure hope this will help him learn to like veggies.

Cathi