Gardens have been a thing of beauty for us to enjoy since the beginning of time. They are mentioned in the bible (the first place man lived was in a garden) and many other historical documents.
We can bask in there shade in the hot weather, enjoy the fruits they produce, smell their sweet aromas and marvel at what a beautiful site they are.
I've always wanted to have a big, luscious, beautiful garden. Full of the things we need to cook with ( I love to cook ) as well as plants we can use for decoration, ect. But I never knew how much work they really are. That is until we started our own a few years ago.
As of now we have two gardens, they were planted earlier in the spring, but ours has not done so well. Jesse's however is colossal, his plants are as big as Charlene ( if you look to the right side of the screen you'll see some pictures of his garden ). So I'm hoping to replant a few of the plants that died, take better care of them, do some excavating and give you tips and hints on what works best for a home garden while I'm at it. Here are some "before" pictures of the garden:
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| This is the bench and stool set that will hopefully be replaced when this whole ordeal is over with. It was beautiful in it's day but I think now it's time for it to go. c ; |
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| This is the pathway that will go behind the garden to the left of the bench. |
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| And this is the one to the right. These pathways will make it easy to reach the plants on the back side of the garden. |
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| This is the garden on the left side of the bench (which is centered between these two soon to be raised beds). |
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| And this is the one on the right. I found it a good choice to hoe the ground before bringing in the soil. Making sure that I get all the roots of the plants up as well. That way the grass and\or weeds will not continue to grow up through the soil and become a problem later. | | | |
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Hopefully when we are through this little pathway that you see at the bottom of the picture as well as the two pathways behind the beds and the area in front of the bench will have stones. We will have a new bench or perhaps table, there will be raised beds on both sides of the new bench and the sides of the house will be pressure washed.
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| This is the only raised bed that has not yet been established. But when were done we hope to have maybe some blueberries in this one. |
I would have pictures of the other three raised beds which are already established and have growing plants in them but my computer wouldn't let me, so, I'll try and get those later. I know it looks bad but we'll have fun working on it and when we are all done, it'll be beautiful c ;
