The Garden

We finally have a garden. Building this garden has been a very long process. In order to have enough sunlight, Patrick had to chop down four trees and pull out the roots for one of those trees. Here is all of the work, in picture. =)

These are the only pictures, that I can find, of our yard before we started doing any work. You can see five trees (one of which is VERY tiny), now, three of those (the three biggest) are the only trees left in our yard.

Here is another picture looking toward where the garden is now. You can also see the little landscaped area in the middle of the yard.

This is the location of my herb garden and strawberry bed. At this point, I didn't know what I wanted to do with it, I just knew that I wanted to get a lot of those rocks out of the middle of our yard.

This is where the home of the stump and roots that had to make way for the garden.

A hard worker.

Some of our wood from the chopping down of trees.

Future location of garden.

The infamous stump.

Branches from tree removal.

Building the garden frame.

Attempting to get this area into shape.

Neatly stacked wood. (In the summer, the home of large black snakes, ugg.)

A hole in our yard that had to be filled in.

The building of the individual raised beds.

Vies of the garden, filled in hole, and the place in the yard where grass formerly did not grow due to too many trees.

The future garden. (And the place where I sprained a wrist and an ankle while pregnant, all within two weeks. After that, I stopped helping in the garden. )

It was all a lot of work.

The completed garden. YAY!

This is what I finally did with the rocks, an herb garden and strawberry bed.

Looking good! Now we shall have to see if we are capable of growing food.