How Does Your Garden Grow?

At the old house I tried my hand at a garden a few times. It was anything but successful! Ok so maybe we got a couple of cucumbers and a few tomatoes each year. But that was IT! Seriously!! It was pretty pathetic! I did have a huge issue with caterpillars eating my tomato plants two years in a row. I'm not an expert gardener by ANY means but what we did get was perfect! The few tomatoes and cucumbers were so fresh and delicious! So I wanted to try again for a more permanent garden and one that could be much larger. I loved the concept of the square foot gardens. So here goes....


So here are the troops making the garden boxes one afternoon.


This was the result! Awesome and I love it! I had a lot of learning to do about how to grow a great garden. I had some friends give me some pointers and I learned tons from Emily here.

Spencer did such a great job making three boxes for me. I mean us, since it's our family garden. He made two 2'x8' boxes and one 2'x4' box. And they fix perfectly in a little area in the back of the yard behind the garage. It's out of the way and was already blocked off so Spencer built a small gate for it as well.

I sectioned it off after filling it with a mix of compost and soil. I then planted our herb and veggie seeds. It was said to plant marigolds to attract bees and deter other unwanted pests.

Here are a few of my little springs before anything REALLY got growing.

This is one of the cucumbers we got. I was able to get a bunch so far but they're not as large or tasty as I remember but that's ok.

This is our garden from April or May. We have TONS of random bricks in the yard (thanks previous owner!) so I thought I'd put them to good use and make a little path between the boxes. So far I have about 8 tomatoes but they're all green and not growing large at all.