Now that it is spring it is time to plant the garden. Creating a bountiful garden starts by preparing the garden from the ground up! It took a bunch of weeding and pulling out the last of the crops from the year before...
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The rest of the carrots & 1 last beet from last years garden
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Then we had to take a shopping trip to get some good soil. Ideal soil drains well and is full of organic material to give nutrients to baby plants aka not our natural soil so we picked up several bags of organic gardening soil to amend our natural soil in the back yard with. We choose to go with an organic soil to avoid pesticides.
Luckily we had Xander with us to give us a hand with all those bags of soil!
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| Xander doing the heavy lifting of soil bags |
First step when getting home was to rototill the garden area and soften the compacted ground from last year. We tried to get ~6 inches deep with the rototiller. We then spread out the garden soil from the store overtop and tilled it in as well giving us a great base of natural & nutrient rich soil.
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| Prepping the soil... What happened with my Camera!! |
After we finished preparing the soil a fence had to go up to keep the pup out, we put weed barrier down to help prevent weeds, and into the ground went our little plantlings. We even planted some marigolds because they are rumored to help prevent insects.. (but if the marigolds don't work they will still look pretty!)
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| The plants are in! |
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| loving the end results |
