Today I finally made it out to the seed store to pick up some seeds for my daughter and I to plant this week.  I know it’s much to early to start planting my seeds for the square foot garden, but I thought it would be lots of fun to try anyway (and maybe she’d stop watering my artifical plant…yes, it’s my Christmas tree and yes, it’s still up).  We purchased some Marigolds, String Beans and Tomatoes.  I have to [...]

I’ve been sitting down trying to plan out what I’m going to plant this summer in the garden. We’re doing the square foot garden again and I can’t wait. I’m sitting here listening to the snow outside and watching the ploughs as they go buy wishing for springtime already. Sadly winter has barely started and I’m wanting spring already… (more…)

Winter has set in again and it’s about this time every year where I start getting the itch to start planning my garden.  Last year we tried square foot gardening and had great success.  Every other year we planted a huge garden at my parents house next door (we live in the country so we have fields to spare) but it mostly ends up going to weed.  My parents are aging and find it difficult to till and hill the [...]