Autumn Garden Time

Well, here at Hill's Half Acre, it's time to get our Autumn Garden under way. You may not be able to see it very well, but I have marked off our garden plot with these four stakes with white t-balls on each one. It seems so little, but beings that this is our first garden here, we are starting out a little little. When my kids hear that I am planning quite a few beets, they suddenly think this garden is getting way out of control and that I should start much much smaller.

Since our "grass" is of the crab variety, I first have sprayed some Round-Up to kill it.... dead. When it is no more, I will till it up, and mix in some magic mixture that my chickens, ducks, and geese have been making for me.

I am giddy with excitement since it has been SOOOOO very long since I have been able to have an actual in the ground garden. The only garden I could get to grow in the last 7 years involved a kiddie pool! (more on that in another post)

As for now, I have to patiently wait until the spray takes it's course and scour the seed catalogs in wait...