progression of garden

I am very lucky to have a mother of many talents, one of which is biodynamic gardening. I am also lucky to have a husband with a horticulture degree and muscles....together the three of us have done some fun stuff in the garden this year!

Kris and I had decided this past winter that we wanted to tear out some of the stuff that was in the backyard when we bought the house. Last fall we did an entire remodel of the yard, broke up extra concrete and removed it, and tore up brick paths that lead to no where. Then we tilled in the grass, releveled the yard to drain properly and re seeded the small amount of grass that we had. We built up our beds on both sides of our skinny long city yard and used the bricks we had to create edges on the beds. We also wanted to build a raised vegetable garden to keep the dogs away and also have it been a boundry to the patio and a nice feature in the yard.

Once we finished all that, my mom came down from NJ in March and sowed seeds with me that I nurtured until she came back in May and we planted. We went to SB Cox, our local salvage yard, and bought 7 terracotta chimney inserts and used them to bring a little height to the gardens. We planted tomatoes in them that have climbed higher than our fences with beans growing in between them.