I think I had stars in my eyes when thinking about this garden. I am pretty sure I thought, that an 80 x 35 foot garden would be easy to plan and get ready. Well as this major snow has melted we've been discussing some MAJOR oversights in the garden design. Namely, water. How are we going to water this thing? By hand, every morning at 4 am before it reaches 100* by 10 am? Or at 9 pm by hand giving a pint of blood to the mosquitoes every night?
Secondly weeds! I like the square foot gardening method. Which is similar to what we wanted to do, only our garden is laid out in mounds. Ok so the sides of those mounds of soil is.... well bare soil = weed city! With Jacob just out of surgery and 2 more scheduled for this year this is starting to sound like disaster. Now don't get me wrong I'm not giving up on getting my hands dirty this spring. I ordered almost $200 worth of fruit, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and grapes! All of these guys get some priority time! We still have to build an arbor for the grape vines and get 2 plastic barrels to cut in half for the blueberry containers. There is so much work to do around here it's kinda stupid. Along with the re-designing of the bed layout and the major water oversight we have some serious planning and brainstorming to do.
We kinda ran out of time last fall, mostly because of canning season which there will be less of this year. I really can't wait until all the snow is gone. It will be nice to see the garden... even if it's just mud.
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