We haven’t been in our home 2 weeks and aren’t fully settled in but you better believe we’ve started the garden! One of the reasons we purchased our home was the amazing yard with ample space to raise our own food.
Last weekend, my husband attempted tilling (with a borrowed tiller) a spot in our back yard without much success. This north Georgia soil is rocky! With no success following a traditional method, we starting looking into other ways to garden. We decided to go the route of raised beds.
So far, we’ve built one bed using James Hardie siding (which is stands up to moisture and rot and is considered ‘green’ because it uses “natural ingredients that are low in toxicity“.) One 12-foot board is around $7 and it makes a 9 square foot bed! (We currently have supplies for 3 more but haven’t had time to build them!)
In our one raised bed, we have our two banana pepper plants that we purchased.
I have an incredibly cute gardening helper, he’ll be gardening alongside of me all summer long!
Last week I also started our seeds. I’m a little behind where I’d like to be but at this point but this will be a “learning year” at the new house as well as gardening with a child!
We already have some growth! I just hope our Georgia soil grows cantalopues like our Tennessee soil did!
One of our goals is to have much of our yard become an edible landscape. Instead of lining the side of our home with flowers, we put strawberries there. So far we just have 4 strawberry plants and hopefully will add some more in the future! (We are starting small this year!)
One of our strawberries is turning! I’m looking forward to eating these juicy berries!
And while I snapped these pictures, Paxton entertained himself with dandelions! He loves them!
So far, we’ve spent under $50 for our garden and most of that was for supplies for building the raised beds which will be used for years to come!
Do you have a garden? If not, have you thought about growing 1 or 2 of your favorite vegetables in a small container garden?
Linked to Frugal Gardening 101 at Amy’s Finer Things, Getting Freedom and Smockity Frocks!
