The Planning of the Garden

So, in between everything going on in regular life we're planning our vegetable garden and today I thought hey... why can't we start growing things now. Sure it's the dead of winter, but somethings take forever to grow... that and I kill plants, so we might have to make several attempts at growing things successfully. These musings have been mostly prompted by learning that it takes a number of years to grow some of the things we'd like to have:

1. Coffee Beans - 4 years
2. Asparagus - 3 years
3. Grapes - 3-4 years
   (We're still investigating the homemade wine process but figure if these folks can make peapod & elderberry wine [ffwd to 3min. 40seconds] that we could have a go at grapes!)

Beyond those "luxury" items, I believe my first challenge will be tomatoes. Because our growing season is short I think I'm going to go with the
"Bush Early Girl"

I'm hoping if we start early the plants will be big enough to put in the ground (and live) by the ends of the frosts sometime around May 11th. Of course the potatoes will need to go in earlier!

Here are our FINALISTS for this years garden:

1. Orange Rocket Carrots
2. Looseleaf Lettuce
3. Snow Peas
   
4. Zucchini
5. Mellon
6. Tomatoes
7. Green Peppers
8. Potatoes
   

Of course I welcome any and all comments and suggestions as I hope to make this my first successful garden ever - all others have failed miserably!

Resolution.2010.

So, 2009 didn't work out so well.
By the end of it all we had piles and piles of wet straw - even some straw growing grass... if only we wanted to grow grass on our walls!

But we are not discouraged, not too much anyway. Had a good cry, got over ourselves and are now moving forward with renewed vigor. With God's blessings and grace for our plans we hope to actually get the job done!



Proposed Plans
(pending approval and under prayerful review)
1. Revise House Plan - move 2nd bedroom upstairs to provide for more living space on the main floor.
2. Review Floor Plan with More Informed Person(s)
3. Evaluate Costs & Break into Phased Development Stages

• In the meantime: Plan Garden, Plant Garden, Mind Garden
• Think about sheep & chickens... prepare for 2011
  

4. Implement Phases & BUILD HOUSE!

Mind you all this while one or the other of us still needs to work to pay for things. We will be testing the waters of full-time freelance work in mid-February, so budgets will be tight and it's possible that we will be eating things Marshall shoots with his BB gun. Let's just hope they're big enough to actually eat... alright - just grossed myself out EEEWWW!

For those of you out there who enjoy British Comedy here's a clip from a show we've been watching that's seems very familiar :D http://www.youtube.com

I'll keep you posted on Marshall's BB skills!
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