How does your garden grow?

Derek spent part of yesterday and the entire day today preparing a garden for us! It wasn't the best weather but we're just grateful to have the time and also a place of our own to hopefully harvest some fresh produce this year!

This picture was taken last fall when we first saw the house. See the mound in the left corner? The previous owners somehow thought it was a good idea to jump dump stuff there. Grass, weeds, branches, toys, garbage, etc. This was the back corner that we decided to put a garden.

Derek found some extra blocks left by the previous owners to make a nice border around our giant compost heap (soon to be garden). This is the heap after Derek already shaved the top layer of junk off. It nearly filled our greenwaste bin.

Derek spent all day digging and dumping and digging and dumping. It was freezing and windy but we were so grateful to have generous family members that live across the street who let us borrow their trailer to dump it all. It took 2 loads! Sofie loved the "wormies" wriggling in the stuff. Turns out the heap of old refuse contributed to some wonderful soil!! (I wasn't much help sitting on a nearby chair holding a 4 week old in the frigid wind...)


Sofie eager to learn hard work.

TA DA!!

Heap gone. Beautiful soil. And a surprise pile of stone blocks for us to use somewhere else in the yard. It's not huge, but we're excited to have our very own garden this year! Hopefully now we can find another weekend to plant the garden...kind of an important part I guess.

And yes, I am feeling a bit overwhelmed by the grass. Or lack thereof (it may look green but it's mostly weeds and crab grass). That may take a few years to fix.

It makes me sad that people could be so negligent of their yard.