Garden Time!

I am so excited to plant my garden this year! I have skipped planting for a few years, because the garden had become overgrown with trees. It was a jungle. So I had enough and Matt and the kids and I took to lopping all the trees off at the ground level. Once that was done, I mowed over it and sprayed it with Round Up. Then my neighbor graciously came and tilled it up. There were many large-ish trunks to remove, which had to be dug around and then axed below the ground. Needless to say, it was a lot of hard work. My neighbor, Terry, tilled it again, and we cleaned up the few tree trunks we had missed. I bought some fertilizer and he tilled that in and made the rows!! Ta- da!!! Gorgeous garden!!! So now I am waiting for the seeds to come. Meanwhile the aggravating seeds are falling all over the garden- the very ones that grew in to trees. So I am hoping to get things planted this weekend!! I will grow corn, tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, green beans, peas, carrots, lettuce, garlic, watermelon, cukes and onions. I will grow some herbs, too. But I need to see how much room I have left!! Here are some pics of the progress so far.