Square Foot Garden Progress!

Messy Motherhood

I filled up all the rest of the wooden raised planters, and then my husband came out and helped me stretch wire across in two directions to designate the planting ‘squares.’

You have to look carefully to see the wire in the picture above.

We have two rows of three planters each. You can see the onion sets already planted in the far planter.

This photo shows the faucets to which the hoses are attached. When we start irrigation, we’ll attach the hoses that run from the garden all the way up past the shop and attach to the outdoor faucet. We’ll have a timer on that faucet so the garden will be watered each day for a specified amount of time.

The picture above shows my cement mixer. I measure out the ingredients for Mel’s Mix into the mixer, then mix for several minutes and dump it into a trash can propped under it. We have now put a tarp over the mixer and the motor so the sun and rain won’t cause damage to it.

These are my trash cans that hold the ingredients for Mel’s Mix: vermiculite, peat moss, mushroom compost, barnyard compost, and cotton burr compost.

Here you can see the garden as a whole, with the exception of the brick planters on the other side of the house where we grow tomatoes. You can see the garden is surrounded by fence, with a layer of chicken wire around the bottom to keep critters out. When I get things planted, I’ll string some surveyor’s tape around the garden to help the deer see it. To the right in this picture is our shop, and to the left is a shooting target we made, called, “Falling Plates” where we practice shooting pistols a couple of times a year. I can kill a plate quite well with a bit of practice. :0)

I’ll take pics again when I get some plants in.