Our other venture is having vegetable gardens. We were going to till right into the yard until he talked to our neighbor. He discovered that we have about six inches of good soil then clay. Because of that the soil does not drain well. Kev built us four raised garden beds that will give us about twelve inches of well drained soil plus the six inches in the ground. He did till up the ground (Thank you to our neighbor who let him borrow his tiller so we didn't have to rent one!) and then set the garden boxes in the yard.
The next hurdle was finding a place to get dirt and then get it to our house. Kev and his dad found a place and made arrangements to have it delivered.
Then the work of getting that dirt to the back yard began. One thing that is nice about having several kids, the more people you put to work = the faster things get done. ;) We had two wheelbarrows and while Kev was dumping one, a couple of us were shoveling into the other. He would come back to leave the empty wheelbarrow and then take the full wheelbarrow to the back. A couple of the kids were in the back spreading out the dumped soil.
Eventually we got it all done.
Because we went out out of town I haven't planted anything yet. Tomorrow I am hoping to plan out where things will be planted and then sow the seeds on Friday afternoon.
Now everyone pray that the seeds we plant decide to sprout and grow. :) I've never been very successful with starting from seed.
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