Today as regular folks celebrated The First Day of Spring, many of us Austin folks panicked at the thought we almost missed putting in a garden. And we did it fast. Today.
Last year I fooled myself. This year this it's all flowers.
Here are a few tomatoes and marigolds in the front box; herbs, a few more tomatoes, and marigolds in the back box. I'm keeping it more simple this year. It's supposed to be another scorcher; I have mulch to pile on this when I can get back outside later today.
Remember my compost bin from this post? It was constructed of packing crates- a free source of untreated wood. But it was years and years old, and we knew it was not going to last much longer. One last season for a family of 9 reduced it to this:
And now we have a shiny new one on the other side of the yard! We built it in October and you can see it's already full. It's not a two-holer like the last one, so I'm not sure how my guys will mange to turn it!
Now that the compost is not on this side of the yard, I plan to develop this hereto-underused yard. The pear tree was removed by my older boys, and the fence came down when the tree company came to remove my big ash tree last fall.
Keep in mind: this is now officially a "before" picture.
For a great tutorial on making these vegetable planting boxes, head over to The Pioneer Woman Home and Garden where she posted a picture-filled tutorial recently. My boxes were made 10 years ago and, because they are made with untreated lumber, had to be shored up this year as they are starting to decompose, too.
1 comments:
Great job! Looks like a lot of work.
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