Back in February, Glenn comes home with a book called "Square Foot Gardening" and thinks we should give it try. He has never tried gardening before and this seems like an easy concept. My Dad grew up on a farm in Indiana and we had a large garden when I was growing up, but I was too young to fully appreciate it. So I'm certainly no farmer, but know that I have someone to call if we have questions (isn't that what Dads are for?).
Anyways, we start looking through the book and getting the main concept down. First thing, is to build the frame and get the ingredients for "Mel's Special Mix". After you get that built, well the gardening bug just really hits. We were finding that we were going to Lowe's often and looking through all the seed packets. We decided that we also wanted to plant fruit trees, so we got a Pear and a Cherry. And the weather was teasing us - we had 80 degree days in March - we wanted to plant. So we went ahead and planted our seeds indoors - we figured by the time they were ready, the weather would be too. We went ahead and planted the potatoes, because they are a cold hardy. Of course, that's when we started to get the heaviest snow of the season - here we had these lovely sprouts and 2 feet of snow on the ground.
We planted the Cherry tree on April 26th, but it doesn't appear that the Pear tree survived that big snow storm. And after hardening the sprouts for several days outdoors, we were finally able to plant them on May 2nd! It was so nice seeing our beautiful sprouts actually in the ground. Now the hard part will be watching and hoping that they grow!
