Gardening is Good for the Soul

Every year, we do a little more and do a little better.

The first year we had the farm, we didn't quite know where we wanted the garden. So we waited too long, choose a poor spot and only planted watermelon. But due to the waiting and the poor spot, nothing grew. Sadness.

Then, in 2016, we were more prepared. We picked up a boatload of seeds from TSC, planned our garden and started to work the area. Except, we waited until the end of March to even till it. And it rained. A lot. So our tilling was in between rain storms, which meant that we were planting in May/June. Again.

We also only tilled the area that was there, not thinking about the type of grass that grew in that particular section or if it would take over our beautiful garden. (Spoiler alert... it did.)

Sooo, after all that work, we left for our anniversary weekend and the grass jumped at the chance. In the 4 days we were gone, it grew to about 6 inches (it rained... a lot), and the battle was lost. The only things to survive were the early things (like radishes, and carrots) or the really hardy things, (like kale, zucchini and summer squash).

But y'all. THIS YEAR.

After loosing the battle to the grass last year, we were bound and determined to not let it happen again. So we started laying down woodchips. And cardboard. And leave clippings. In SEPTEMBER. We have been preparing for this ALL winter and it's finally paying off! This year, we planted at the appropriate times, (well mostly), we built raised beds all winter, and we carefully, carefully plotted out the garden.