We want to eat our yard

My garden is finally starting to look close to how I want it to look! With a lot of help from my family, a lot of hard work from Josh, and extra productive uses of Jacob's nap times by me, it's all coming together. For Father's Day, my mom and siblings came over to help out in the yard- which was exactly what Josh wanted. Having extra hands to help with Jacob, plant vegetables, stack random scrap wood, and clean the inside of the house was awesome. Thanks, family!


I built a really cool cucumber trellis tent that Jacob can play in! Tutorial to come!

Josh built us some pretty neat planter boxes (he really couldn't have done it without Jacob's and my help, I'm sure), we brought in two truckloads of good soil, and we all got to work. During one of Jacob's naps, I figured out how to use THE CULTIVATOR to till up the beds and unloaded a whole truckload of dirt by myself! I only dropped one wheelbarrow load on myself, so I'm pretty proud.


This has been my daily outfit for the past month. I'm looking forward to wearing real people clothes now that the hard work is mostly done.







Now we just need a dry day when Josh is off of work to wrap the whole thing in plastic. We're going to make a built-in sandbox for Jacob off the short end of the bed! I'm excited for him to have warm and dry sand to play in even when it's raining and gross out.




I'm not sure if I've mentioned it, but Josh is VERY into making traditional Italian pizza, down to every last detail. We're hoping these San Marzanos will grow well so we can use them in our pizzas!


Garden predators can sneak up on you.

In the garden bed I have brussel sprouts, red cabbage, butternut squash, four cucumber plants (2 pickling, 2 slicing), blue hubbard squash, zucchini, and strawberries. In the greenhouse beds, my mom and I planted 16 tomato plants, six pepper plants, a whole mess of onions and garlic, eggplant, more sugar snap peas, a whole bunch of herbs, and a watermelon that Jacob put in our wagon at the nursery and I discovered when unloading the plants. Who knows if the watermelon will grow, but into the greenhouse it goes! And of course, we have our greens planted in the salad table Josh built. If you haven't gathered this by now, our plan is pretty much to turn our backyard into as much food as possible. We plan to share our food with family and friends, can A LOT of it to store, and donate as much as we can to a local food bank that takes fresh produce! We're into caring for the land that we have, reaping what we sow, and being prepared for zombie attacks. I'm not kidding, ask Josh.

// see more garden posts from this and past years here //