Building the Veggie Garden
May. 13th | Posted by Nicky
7 comments
I have all these big landscaping plans, and Jrock has been standing by, scrutinizing my ideas, throwing his hands up at costs, and just being generally grumpy about the whole thing.
So I started myself – riping up sod, buying plants at the Garden Club’s sale, etc. Finally, seeing big patches of dead sod on our lawns, dust all through the SUV from hauling sod to the dump, and general chaos, he gave up and decided to pitch in. Which is good! because it’s a heck of a lot easier to do this stuff with a partner.
Yesterday we peeled back some more of the dead sod in the back yard and started on the raised garden beds. It doesn’t look like much yet, but going out and getting the boards and putting your design in action is half the challenge. The 4 beds will be 24 inches high, so I can sit on the edge of the beds and weed and plant.
One of the other main challenges in the yard is the “toddler dealth trap” – left of where I’m sitting in the garden photo and from closer above. It’s a pond insert – currently full of a bunch of mud and leaches – eww - but too deep and too precariously situated for safety. I love ponds – I had a big one in our last yard… but it wasn’t an insert, and a kid could walk out of it over a gradual edge. This one is quite a hole. So I’m going to haul it out, fill in the dirt, and replace it with some very shallow pool and a water fountain. I’ll take out the rock plants, move them away to a more useful part of the yard, and plant it with herbs.
I love puttering in the garden! (And I am so happy Jrock is helping me out too 
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Your little ones will love to putter with you as well. That will be a great garden!
Most unfortunate about the pond that leads halfway to China- I think that your water fountain will look much better and the sound will be lovely.
I love raised beds. My husband made me one too, however, the edges are concrete (he’s in the concrete business).
Happy Gardening!
p.s. is your agency giving you any new timelines?
I think it’ll be a really nice place for the kids when we’re done, too, Courtney!
Hi Jody – no news… we’re with IA… do you have new timelines?
Nicky
Hi!
Thanks for your thoughtful comment on my blog. Nice to “meet” you. I have a similar post to make as we, too, just finished our Habesha Veggie garden!
Thanks again!
You have me totally inspired to get out in our yard this weekend, and for once it looks like the weather might cooperate!
btw, I always enjoy the seasonal rowan tree picture at the top of your blog
I just noticed you’d changed it to spring.
Dianne -
It’s so funny how you just don’t “see things” when they cross your eyes every day. It’s been spring here for a couple months, and I still had the snowy rowan berries on the header, ha ha.
I guess my blog is empathetic with all our relations who live up north lol.
Nicky
Looks great so far! I look forward to seeing a picture of your finished garden. My hubby is building me a raised vegetable garden this weekend (He seems okay with his job being to prepare the garden, as long as I do the planting and weeding).