Building the garden.

2014 we moved.....

Great idea we said, everyone was happy and excited.

Then I realized I had to redo my entire garden :/ It was all OK in my mind, I got to do raised beds and I could make it prettier than the last garden.

Then I started actually "doing" it oh my gosh when is this ever going to be done!?!?!?

So basically I just built my beds and called it good.  Ill have to post pictures sometime or another when I get them off the old computer....

So anyways this season I was focusing on just getting the fence up. I new the beds were good, I didn't have any gophers no little varmints last year except for in the lower garden that wasn't wire protected. I was tired and I just wanted to plant my corn, and squash, and pumpkins.

I waited till the rainy season and I dug something of like 20 holes with my handy dandy hand held post hole digger. It went really quick. Like i did 5-7 poles a day and then got them set and called it a day. lol I was beat.

SOOOO here are some pictures of the progress, its nothing pretty but it prettier than the last garden. Will do a little flash back to present. :)

2012*** Ya its the little thing with the tin and wood. :)

2013*** Had my honey take the D3 and push a lower garden for all the yummy corn we grew that year, and added on to the upper garden, I cant seem to find a finished picture of it ended up something about 20x 40. the both of them each. 

2014*** pictures are stuck on old computer.....

2015***Mind you I was gather supplies from people that were just getting rid of things. Old wood, pallets, tin. We will be moving again and I didn't want to invest in good wood. When I have a home Im going to set everything in concrete and be permanent. Though this by far is still my best garden, its been compeletly fenced in since pictures, it has been 98% painted. It has a few more things to fix up. 

The Garden......



So this has been one of the biggest projects that I have taken on in awhile. I think it turned out pretty darn well. Its not going to fall down! So that is always a BIG plus in my book. It took a bit longer to get done then what I was expecting. We had quite a bit of rain for awhile so it held me up. Not to mention a horrible sunburn that I got on the last day of transplanting all of the veggies and such.



In the beginning, digging a foot down here to lay the gopher wire. I told myself that if I was going to take the time to plan out this garden and take the time to raise all these vegetables. Then I was going to take every precaution for it to out run its natural born predators. Gophers, deer, birds, bunnies, and bugs of whatever sort.  I hear all of these stories of animals eating everything and I just didn't want to be one of "those" gardeners with one of "those" stories.



Half way done, so worn out and still have to do the other half.



Starting to look like something now. So I made of side taller than the other for two reasons. One so that the climbers could have a 8 foot wall to grow up. Two so that when I put the bird netting it would angle down and I could still walk inside. I'm short so this works for me. Not so much for when the taller people come by. So I started with the post got them set. Starting then to wrap the entire enclosure with whatever wire I had lying around. I also then started thinking that the bunnies could defiantly still get in if they wanted. SO I noticed that I had some corrugated tin laying around so I did the whole bottom in that even dug it down about 5 inches into the ground. Then topped with the bird netting. So at this point I am feeling pretty great about what I have created.



The gate still needs some work.



Here is a side shot of everything. I know that my beams I dug into the ground are not completely square, or maybe its just a post or two that didn't get plumed quiet well, lol. Either way I'm a happy camper. I have my little walk way, everything looks a little neater being in there own little area. I even planted some Marigolds for a little color and because I kept reading that they are to ward off most common bugs. Which will see how well that works.



Another side shot. I cant even express how excited I am for everything to begin being ready to harvest. then its on to canning. Which is going to be a completely new adventure and I cant wait to take it on.

I really hope that you enjoyed following me with my process of working on my garden and I hope that you continue to follow and enjoy everything to come with me.