No money, no time......

A little time has passed, and nothing has happened in the veggie garden.  I feel the year's planting season passing me by.  Sadly, the cost of the fence has prevented me from moving forward in any organized fashion.

I sat down and planned out the space:

Looks good on paper, right!  The green areas are the raised beds.  The grey is gravel (actually so is the white in between).  The fountain is salvaged from a corner of our house and I plan to plant the herbs within its tiers.  The shed is supposed to be custom built by someone called Jim Corneghie - but I've lost his number, and he's not in the book.  Drats!

I took a drive out to the local granite quarry to purchase gravel.  That got me nowhere.  They don't deliver small orders.  Honestly, the thought of wheel-barrowing three tons of granite up the hill did not appeal to me.

Ho hum, drumming of fingers.....

Here are some pics of various things blooming around the house!

  Rhododendron and azaleas....

  the arbor rose.....

  dwarf zinnias....

Alrighty, enough of the diversion.  Back to work.  Here's my little squirt, turning her back on my seemingly endless project.

  Whatever, mommy - see ya.

So, when in doubt about how to do things economically, easily, and practically - turn to Home Depot!

Off we go - because my past experience tells me, that it might not be the most wholesale way to go, at least everything you need is under one roof.  My two unwilling shoppers accompanied me this morning, and here we are with the supplies for ONE QUARTER of the veggie beds.  Oh my goodness.

The kids just cannot fathom that I'll be willlingly adding cow poop to the place where our veggies will grow!

Next up - having to reconfigure my layout (the garden boxes are 4x4, not 6x4 like my plan shows), and getting down to building the first two!  In the mean time, my radish, bean, and pea seedlings are busting out of their little plastic bins, and itching for a place to grow......