So about a week ago I get this great idea to start a garden...
That sounds like a fitting enough start to start off a blog about gardening I suppose. in any case, yesterday I plotted the garden, its probably about 6'X6' or a little bigger I'd guess, and plant the first six little red onion plants Sammi picked out for me to try growing. it was back-breaking work to say the least.
It took me an hour and a half, and that's a conservative estimate, to hoe that little patch of hardpan to make it even semi-arable. Then I had to rake in the garden soil I'd bought at OSH (which is where Sammi works, by the way) and I hoed the whole fucker again for good measure and raked it again to smooth and airate it again.
By the time I was ready to start planting, my back, knees, and various muscles were screaming at me to STOP! So I planted the six red onions and brought the cilantro and Walla-Wallas back inside for the night.
That was day one...
Today was significantly better due mainly to the presence of my wonderfully amazing fiance Sammi. We had some delivious Thai food (mine was Pad pha nang and if you like curry I highly reccommend it) then headed out back to work. We put in another 2 good hours of legitimate work before calling it quits.
So, now that little garden has a total of 12 onion plants, 4 onion seed spots, two chive seed spots, and two cilantro plants. Pretty good start to a garden. Oh, and we also set up two pots, one of tomato seeds the other of more chives, on the porch to compliment the spearmint and lavender I planted 2 days ago.
In the end it was a great start! Much more satisfying than sitting or laying on my ass playing computer games all day! Can't wait to harvest some awesome veggies!
No comments:
Post a Comment