So the clouds have finally parted and Spring is coming to northern California, I can’t say I’m not excited to see it. I’ve missed the sun terribly since I saw it last sometime in late November. Not everything about spring is great, my allergies have returned with the Sun and I’ve had to go back on a cocktail of drugs in order to breathe through my nose and see through my eyes. Time will tell if this price is worth paying for.
With spring here, it was time to finally put my thoughts on gardening into more than just lines on a paper:
This turns out to have been a little too optimistic about what I could fit into the side yard and so I settled on a single 4’x10′ box instead of the two smaller ones, there just wasn’t enough room to move around with the original plan. A quick trip to Ace Hardware, a realization that my automatic drill wasn’t up to snuff, a return trip to Ace, and a little bit of sweat and:
Soil arrives tomorrow to fill the box up, and then there will be one last trip to Ace for seeds and seedlings. D and I plan on putting in eggplants, cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, melons, beans, and basil. Give or take. Since this is the first time we’ve done this some experimenting is on order and so we’ve planted tomatoes, beans, and peppers in the front yard too, where they’ll get more direct sunlight than the box on the side. It only required my butchering one of the hedges (I’d like to remove all of them and put in some sort of sage grass, but I’m only renting.) Hopefully, between the two I’ll get something to show out of this work.
Once the box is in place, filled, and planted I’ll take some more pictures. If everything works this site should soon be full of the garden’s progress. If you don’t see anything else about it, I’m merely hiding my shame.
I look forward to raiding your tomatoes!
Awesome! Lisa and I have got tulips and other crazy bulbs coming up. Let me know how the season treats you – we’ll be behind, but not too far, I hope ;).