vegie garden

Spring, and some warmer weather is finally here! We decided that we would add a vegetable garden as our "yard project" this year. We bought 3 pieces of 8x4x2 lumber and Mark built a "box" to house the vegie plants. We then filled the box with lots of "goodies" like organic compost, peat moss and manure (based on a recipe from our local Lowes hardware store).

Heather stained the box with some polyeurethane that we had left over from doing our patio furniture, and Mark added some decorative caps to the corners. (He had lots of fun playing with his miter saw once he discovered it could do angles other than 90 degrees!)

We're not too sure what will grow well here so we've planted quite a mixture of things we like to eat including broccoli, zucchini, lettuce, spinach, snap peas, mint, basil, parsley, dill and the "fixin's" for a good salsa - tomatoes, tomatillos, bell peppers (capsicum to those of you in Aus), onions and cilantro. Here's hoping that the deer that occasionally pass through our yard aren't feeling hungry for some tasty seedlings!