Watch Us Grow

To all who read this blog, I hope you find it to be enjoyable and maybe find something useful.  I'm not good at blogging but I'm trying.  Most of the time, my lack of blogging has come from the lack of passion.  I have recently found something to be passionate about, gardening.  I have always loved playing in the dirt, I'm sure my mother has stories about how dirty my brother and I got as children.  Needless to say over the years, my passion has grown and now we have the space to do so.  I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to gardening but that is part of the adventure. 

Right now my biggest frustration is our weather.  For anyone else who lives in the Great North West or the Great North 'Wet' as my mother calls it might know what I'm talking about.  As a child we had cool winters with lots of storms and some snow, while our summers were warm and sunny.  The last couple years have been weird.  With it being as wet as it has been, planting a garden, and on a budget has been hard.

Two years ago we attempted our first garden.  We were sharing our garden space with our neighbor and planted over 40 tomato plants.  Sadly it was a wet summer and I was pregnant.  We had a weed that took over our garden and grew to be over 5 feet with in a couple weeks.  Being pregnant made it hard to crawl along the ground for long periods of time while picking weeds.  Later in the summer we got lots of rain and our pour soil didn't allow the water to drain off leaving us with root rot in every single tomato plant.  This year we decided to do raised beds. Unlike most, we're making ours out of cinder blocks.  We've also added some composted manure and will be adding stuff from our compost pile.

I will be attempting to write at least a post or two a week as I go through this learning process. I will try to keep everyone updated on our garden and post things that I learn as I go.

Enjoy!