Raised bed garden. May 2012

April 12th I went to Lowes and looked at all the vegetable and fruit seeds. I really had spring fever BAD, bad, bad. I wanted to start a garden, however there were no plants only seeds. 

We had been having an early warmer than normal spring and was many parts of these united states. Since it was really early I decided to start the seeds myself. Half the time I do this it is a waste of money. The starters get mold or root rot. So I got the whole starter stuff and came home to plant my seeds.

 Each day I made sure there was water in each of the trays.

I put them all out each day to get some natural light.

 Each night I would bring them in and set them on the kitchen cupboard.


We were having warm days and most nights were warmer than normal and did not freeze.

I did not want to take the chance of freezing, just in case the weather man/woman was inaccurate I brought these little plants into the house.

I used photo paper to mark what was planted where. 


As I would never, never do to any of my daughters, I hovered over these little plants day and night. That is the helicopter approach to gardening. That my work on seedlings, however do not try this on children.


On the photo paper I wrote the plant date and the plant name. I cut these out in strips and folded them and placed them in the dirt.

I continued my vigil until about May 12th. My grandsons came over and helped build elevated plant beds. They actually did the whole thing. 

I wanted the bed to be near the deck and elevated so I could easily care for the plants and harvest the bounty!!

 We bought the  beds at Ace hardware. They were pretty inexpensive.


We had a bunch of pallets just sitting in the yard so we had the boys pile three and then put the yard fabric on top then the plant bed.

 The boys then filled each bed (two only) with good soil.

 My helicopter approach to the seeds worked. I hovered enough and it looks like I will have a good crop.







So now I need to put the plants into the the beds.
I am so excited I will have fresh vegetables.

They look pretty good and hearty.