Please grow.

Yay! All of our seeds have arrived for our garden! Here Johnie is educating Biscuit about the wide variety of seeds that we ordered and when they need to be planted.  As you can tell, Biscuit is thrilled to be a part of this project.  In case you were wondering, we bought our seeds from seedsnow.com.

 

 

This is our first garden here in Texas so we are pretty excited to try something new.  We are more excited to be a little more self sufficient and to grow some non GMO, organic veggies and fruits for our family.  Fingers crossed!

For this garden, we decided to build above ground boxes as we are following a square foot gardening technique that we have recently learned about.  Here you can see a few of the 4x4 boxes that we built.  We custom blended a mix of organic soils and compost to fill these boxes with.  I can tell you that so far, this has been a project that has exceeded our budget.  The soil mixture alone was double if not triple what I thought it would be.  Let's not even get into the money spent on this nice wood that we built the custom boxes out of.  Oooh.. and the fencing.. that is another item that exceeded the budget that we put up around the garden.  Why did we put fencing up you ask?

This is why we had to put up fencing: Oink, oink, oink!

This is one of the many farm animals that roam around lately.  We have hound dogs, chickens, goats and pigs that free range from time to time around here.  

Let me clarify, these are not our animals... they are our neighbors!   





So, the next time you want to complain about your local HOA (Homeowners Association) giving you weed or garbage can notices, think about these animals hanging out in your yard (or garden!).
BTW, Johnie is secretly planning a pig roast here soon if this fella doesn't leave us alone. Hahaha.

At the end of the day, it has been a nice place to escape to and watch the many beautiful sunsets that we have grown to love while living out here in the country.  I captured this one the other night while talking on the phone (hellooo Stacey) and while watering the garden.  Talk about multitasking!

Now... let's bow our heads and say a little prayer that it all GROWS!!!