Spring planting

I've been wanting to put in a garden, but with Roger gone over the last couple of years - it was just more than I thought I could handle.

I love these boots!

Since he is home this spring, I decided that maybe this year I could manage it. We have mostly clay so I wanted a raised bed. Roger (the practical one) wanted to just nail some board together, but I really liked these cool brackets and after some hounding ... he finally gave in.

For the last couple of weeks I've been working the soil. It's a mixture of clay, leaf mulch, peat and the stuff I pulled out of the chicken coop yesterday. The idea was to use top soil, but instead of 3 yards of leaf mulch and 2 yards of top soil, they delivered all leaf mulch and I decided to improvise.

As I was planting this evening (in humid 90 degree weather) I realized that I have not had a garden since I was a child. Actually probably since I was about 8 years old. Now, I've grown tomatoes, and I once did potatoes in a tire. It’s hard to get things to grow in Seattle with all the shade and such a short growing season.

I’d already planted my onions and potatoes a few weeks back, and I decided to do these in these new grow bags.

Look I already have potato greens coming up!

And for the 3rd year in a row I’m doing my upside down tomatoes in buckets

It's kinda cool to think that these seeds will become food.In the garden I planted Carrots, Beets, Watermelon, Cucumbers, Squash, and Gords