Description: "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." ~ Blessed Mother Teresa
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." ~ Blessed Mother Teresa
Menu About Contact Popular Archives Garden Update – June 5th June 6, 2023 ~ Laura ~ Leave a comment Welcome to my first real garden! In the past several years, I’ve tried growing various plants in pots, on an apartment deck, balcony, and even inside. Most attempts have been fairly unsuccessful, so the prospect of growing things in our own yard after buying a house was so exciting! Flowers are one of my favorite things in nature (our roses need their own post), but I also wanted to try my hand at growing act
Our property is nearly a quarter acre , but much of that is a large front yard, and a concrete RV pad in the back. The grass area in the back yard looked like bare dirt when we moved in, but turns out there was some dormant grass, and we planted more new grass. We dug up part of that area to transform into the garden. It was a lot of work using a hand-tilling tool, which was needed to really break up the neglected earth and remove all the spring weeds. The soil is full of worms and bugs, which hopefully mea