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Garden Shed Debut and Veggie Progress

I never thought I would utter the words, "you care more about the yard than me" to my husband this summer.

But I have.  Several times in fact.

Cary has been working like a beast to get the garden shed done.  It's been on it's foundation for a couple weeks now and I've found a couple things to do to help make it feel like less of an eye sore.

This is the view directly to the left of our patio area.
And from the front of the shed.
Inside the shed




My mom had the bright idea of putting some sort of outside art on it, which I was digging, then I had the idea of adding some functional space to the shed foundation.  Et Voilà

I splurged on some fancy-ish trellises to hold up some crawlers.  I have cucumbers in one and I was going to put snap peas in the other, but realized I didn't buy snap peas this year.  So I tossed the sunflower seeds in there.  We'll see what happens!
It's coming together folks.  Obviously, we have quite a bit of clean up to complete.  There was some major sprinkler issues with this location.

As for plants, most of the tomatoes seem to be doing ok, except the one I think suffered during our last cold snap.  It has little tomatoes, so who knows.   One strawberry has taken off and might take over the whole yard.


Disappointments include the lettuce, it just isn't growing enough (maybe I planted too late and the sun is killing it) and spinach bolted in an instant like it always does.  The bell peppers also did nothing, so I ended up pulling them out to put in a tomato plant my grandpa gave me. 


My plans for the garden area by the fence are also quickly dying.  First, not many plants sprouted.  Second, the weeds!  I've never seen this many weeds in a garden bed before.  We had so few weeds in our previous garden that I wondered why gardeners even complained about weeds. Ha! Now I know.

Between the weeds and not being a feasible location for the vegetables I want to grow (the zucchini seeds didn't even sprout), I think I will let go of this chunk of land and let it become grass again. I don't have time to make square pegs fit in round holes.  My journey into container garden will move ahead full steam...next year.

You might have noticed an awful lot of rock suddenly appearing around our garden boxes.  Updates are coming.  

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