We planted our first fruit, vegetable, and herb garden this last weekend. We bought and planted everything on Saturday. Buying everything wasn't all that fun since it's our first time and don't really know what we're doing. I read a few books to try to give us the best chance of growing a successful garden. I think they ended up making it more confusing. But if my garden doesn't grow the plants very well I'll know it's because I didn't follow the soil advice my books gave me. Although I did find a website that seems to be pretty useful in learning about how to grow specific plants. It's bonnieplants.com if anyone's interested. I enjoyed the actual planting of the plants though. Jackson is really excited about our garden. At walmart he found some watering cans and kept saying that we could use it in the garden. He also was excited to help plant. We did the planting during nap time though, but saved one for him to help with. All he really wanted to do though was water it. He didn't like touching the plants or dirt. We decided to grow strawberries, watermelon, potatoes, onions, carrots, lettuce, parsely, green and yellow bell peppers, and cucmbers. Hopefully we'll get some yummy food from it.
Jack helping water the watermelon.
Doug pouring in the soil. We bought 5 bags of it. We were planning on putting packing peanuts at the bottom of the containers to help with drainage and to make it lighter and because we figured they'd be cheaper than the soil. But we couldn't find any at the stores we bought our gardening stuff from. We still bought the same amount of soil as we would have had we bought packing peanuts too. So with the amount of soil that I thought would fill less than half of each of the containers we were able to fill all the containers as much as we needed to. Plus we still have a bag left. But I was planning on having a bag left to add more to the potatoes. I guess cubic feet are bigger than I expected them to be...
Jack spreading the dirt.
Jack watering with our new hose and sprayer that can spray just water or can spray fertilzer and water. It makes it easy to water and feed our plants.
Jack helping water the watermelon.
Doug pouring in the soil. We bought 5 bags of it. We were planning on putting packing peanuts at the bottom of the containers to help with drainage and to make it lighter and because we figured they'd be cheaper than the soil. But we couldn't find any at the stores we bought our gardening stuff from. We still bought the same amount of soil as we would have had we bought packing peanuts too. So with the amount of soil that I thought would fill less than half of each of the containers we were able to fill all the containers as much as we needed to. Plus we still have a bag left. But I was planning on having a bag left to add more to the potatoes. I guess cubic feet are bigger than I expected them to be...
Jack spreading the dirt.
Jack watering with our new hose and sprayer that can spray just water or can spray fertilzer and water. It makes it easy to water and feed our plants.
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This will be so fun! I hope you guys get some yummy food. I need to plant my pots but I STILL haven't done it. I guess I know what I will be doing tonight!
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