Garden 2016

I never shared much about our garden but we had one. It turned out pretty awesome too! Especially for thinking we'd just slap some wood borders down on the side of the house with some plants and see what happened. AND we didn't get it in until July sometime. Oops! But Brett had us build boxes, fill them with a dump truck of real dirt, added a watering system and we grew a pretty amazing garden. We sprayed it with Deer repellent most of the year and it seemed to keep them away. Once a few rains came through though and washed it away- they thought it was free game. Grrrr!
Here's a few shots of our 2016 Garden:

Here's kids picking corn

Here's a little of our Harvest before we got an early frost that ended our gardening days for this year.

Justice tried to grow pumpkins but the stinky deer ate them right off the vines. Dang it!!!

Garden Boxes

On our list of house projects to complete over the next couple of years---- a garden is kind of down on the list. We have a fort and the basement and the lawn, and a hot tub and a air conditioning and a Cruise and etc, etc. Does it ever end????
But as we examined our timeline, we realized that if we wait like we had planned- Liberty will be moved out before we get to it. So.... we decided to make-sift something for this year so she can participate in our Family Gardening Experiences.

Brett bought us some treated wood. He went out of town so the kids and mom got out the power tools and made some boxes. We set them up on the east side of our house and bought a little dirt. (When I say little---- we bought quite a few bags but it didn't even make a dent in what we need for these boxes. Oops! It looks a little pathetic actually!)

The kids and mom did some shopping and everyone picked some plants to grow for this year.

They sat in our garage for quite a while until we decided to set them out in the boxes to get some sunlight. Unfortunately that day it started to HAIL!!! Can you see the hail pebbles on the deck. Crazy! We ran out and rescued as many as we could. So much for our grand plan on sunshine! LOL

When Brett got back in town, he decided we should move the boxes to the place they will eventually be permanent. (We really want to have a fenced garden with fruit trees, a pathway, a bench and a little red barn to keep our lawn mower & go-karts in-- but that's wayyyyy down the road so we thought it'd be easy to just put the boxes on the other side this year. At first it was a bit buggy that Brett wanted to move them but in the long run-- it'll be awesome! Plus the strawberry patch can get good and established. Way to go- thinking ahead, love! So we moved them all over & Brett added another layer to each box:

We all helped dig and level all the boxes so that they are a bit tiered but not slanted down the hill. Way to go us!!!!

We ended up having a dump truck bring in 5 yards of dirt and spread them in our boxes. It was more than we wanted to spend but holy moly did it save us time & our backs for getting that much dirt in there! Then the kids and I worked hard to get all our plants in the ground. I came in looking like a strawberry from the garden. LOL Whew! Gardening is hard work!

The kids took turns 2 or 3 times a day going out and watering our little garden with the hose hooked up to the well. It is way late in the season but it'll be fun to watch it grow anyways!

Then Brett got really ambitious and put in a drip system. We tried all kinds of different sprinkling heads so we know what we like. Wowzers! It is awesome! If it ever needs to be watered more- Brett taught the kids to manually turn it on. We are Garden Rock Stars! That is... if they ever grow any bigger! ;)

We have enjoyed a few strawberries. How fun is that!!!