Welcome to our garden!

As a 7th anniversary gift, I gave Rachel a garden. The idea was given to me by a good friend at work, who saw I was out of ideas. Rachel loves it! It was pretty easy to build and fairly inexpensive. Materials were all purchased locally at Home Depot for less than $65. The topsoil was purchased from a local greenhouse for about $40. Of course, they did not deliver, but it didn't take long to move the yard of dirt from my buddy's truckbed to the backyard using a rugged lawn wagon lined with a tarp.

As part of the gift, I also got her this "Jiffy" greenhouse and three packets of seeds (green beans, corn, and carrots). She bought some more seeds (watermelon and gypsophylia) to round out the first crop. The greenhouse is really a neat thing. it has small peat packets that expand once water is added. The seeds are added (2 or 3) per packet and the plastic clear cover is put on top. The greenhouse holds 25 individual starters and is placed on top of the fridge (or in a place with indirect sunlight). What you see here is the result of just three days of growing! We already have sprouts in several of the starters and soon we will take off the lid as the sprouts grow more and more. We'll keep you up to date on the progress of our garden. Thanks for tuning in!