Our Square Food Garden

Here is the garden...in progress. It had the retaining wall and the dirt in it. The dogs enjoyed it until we fenced it off...Here you can see the pole in the middle...one of these days it will be sanded and painted, and hopefully have morning glories growing up it.
A side view...

Here is the first box we planted. I planted 9 broccoli plants and two boxes of onion sets (one red, and one white).
Here is what the boxes look like with the slats on it. The trellis is still to come...Hopefully that will be done today.

Planting seeds for the first time...

Two years ago when Johnny and I first did a garden (or I guess, the first time I ever did, he has had experience with it before), we planted only plants (other than squash seeds).

We of course planted tomatoes, jalapenos, bell peppers and squash...nothing out of the ordinary. Last year we moved during planting season, so we were unable to try again, so this year I spent a lot of time researching and finding out a way we could have a productive gardening. I came across the Square Foot Gardening method by Mel and have read through his book at least twice, waiting patiently (or not so patiently) for the garden to be ready for me to start planting.

I'll be glad next year when I can start when it is time to plant and not have to wait for it to be done!

I planted radishes and carrots (8 of each) in one box, Swiss Chard, Lettuce (I am trying it from seed, praying it works!), Spinach and Snap Peas.

First planting...

I planted 9 broccoli plants. Tried starting them indoors from seed, but I had a lot of difficulty due to not being at home. Hopefully I can do better when I plant them in the Fall!

I planted a box (16) white/yellow onions. I had these in the garage since November and some had sprouts, others didn't. They shot up pretty quickly. It was exciting to see - as I have never grown onions before.

I planted a box of (16) red onions. These did not sprout as well, but I had just purchased the bulbs from the store, so that could be why.

We are praying each of the broccoli plants will turn into a head of broccoli. For only $3 for 9 of them, that would be a good deal...Lord willing, we will be blessed with some fresh broccoli.

Interesting article...

I thought this article was interesting... Economic Landscape

Calvary Longview

Things have gotten so crazy, that I have not even thought about posting as of late.

Johnny did his first funeral, and the Lord blessed, praise God...and he has his first wedding on Saturday. The two of us have been blessed to walk through a season with the couple he is marrying, and Lord willing He will bless the ceremony.

We are both doing well, we can't believe that time has gone as fast as it has. The Lord has been good to us, and He is continuing to prepare us, and the people that are part of our body.

I hope all of you are well...

the new addition to our family...

Here is Sarah, the new addition to our family. She ran up and greeted Johnny and I one morning when I dropped him off at work in April. We couldn't bear to not keep her. I will put up a new picture of her soon...so you see how much better and healthier she looks - she was in this condition when we brought her home - I promise! Sarah and Rebecca get along famously.

120 Kate

We have lived here 3 months and I am finally putting the pictures up on the web. I did wait until we got our new furniture into take the pictures. Maybe one of these days I will start posting more regularly - it will be one of my goals. We really like the kitchen - it is a lot nicer to cook when you have the space to do it - and we were blessed with a brand new stove when we moved in. (Johnny likes the fact that we have carpet - and it is on foundation rather than pier and beam).

For those of you that don't know, I am not going to be teaching next year. I will be using my master's and doing Instructional Design/Content Development for a company called EdWay Online. I am blessed and I am able to work from home (most days). Johnny was ordained on June 1st...one more step on the path the Lord has placed us on. We had our first Sunday morning last week (June 15th) and it was a blessing. We know the Lord has plans, we are just not sure what they are yet.