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Category Archives: Participating Families

Seeds in the Ground!

Soooo, I met with Scott (my garden coach) on Monday, and we planted some things! My backyard is pretty overgrown with weeds, blackberry bushes, and there are even a few fallen tree branches. To say that I thought the work to prep my garden would be overwhelming is an understatement. However once we got started, time flew by pretty quickly.

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My First Day Gardening…

Well, my first day was Friday, April 30, with my Master Gardner, Charlotte; she was just fabulous!

I had an area full of weeds, rocks, poor soil, and old matter. We spent the first day for 4 hours, just weeding, tilling, then resoiling one area the ground. Our first trip to Lowe’s was to purchase soil products. Our 2nd trip was to purchase a fork tool so we could turn the soil and mix the manure, and 2 other types of soils. Once everything was turned, we got rid of balls of soil and additional green matter.

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I’m excited about getting started!

I’m normally not a blog person, but I am very excited about being a part of this Garden Project, so I will be posting and posting away! We had our first meeting yesterday to just do the admin portion of the project and soon I hope to be out in my garden with my [...]

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