phyncke

Today, we started our garden for real. We met last weekend to plan it out and today we did as follows:

-tilled the soil and took out weeds and grass
-fertilized the soil with our own compost
-went to local nursery and bought plants (lettuce, herbs, chard, spinach, soil, netting and gloves) (we need to get trellises and posts for the netting)
-planted first plants in the soil
-watered them

To get later:
-cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini, trellises, poles for netting

-my expenditure - 27.95 but I owe them some funds

It rained quite a bit yesterday so conditions were perfect to start today. The earth turned easily and it was not hard to pull out the weeds and grass. My plants that I am doing are the lettuce and later we are adding cucumbers and tomatoes to the garden. My idea is to grow all the plants I need to make my own salad. Yays. We each got to pick what we wanted to grow and then decided on some things to round our our first crop.

I plan on posting the progress here and on FB. This is my first time gardening. I am working with C and O in our house and we have R (C's hubby who says he is not helping but helps anyways).

Tilled plot. There are three of us in the collective (R help even though he says he is not helping but does all the hard work!)