My last post here was a year ago...

But it's not like I've had a real garden since then. This year, I do. And I am planning on documenting what I do this year in a garden journal.

I am re-doing my parent's garden. They need help anyways, but this will really give me a chance to have some fun with their yard. D has already made me a new bed for all my vegetables.

My herb barrels

There will be two of them, on either side of the vegetables. The first one, on the left, is almost full. There are chives, lavender, rosemary, parsley, and cilatro growing so far. Of course, no herb barrel is complete without basil, but it's still a bit too cold to plant in the ground yet. Instead, my seedlings are gently growing in the covered planter.

Much more still to plant!

I will have so much fun figuring out where to put everything! The boxes will go under the workshop's windows, with the petunias inside. I'm hoping to put the rest of the phlox beside a pathway that we will construct between the house and the workshop. Some of the other flowers will go next to the new vegetable patch. The lillies will probably go in the front yard, under an oak tree. There is some forsythia and some other non-flowering bushes to replant. Lots of work still to do!

The cold weather vegetables

The peas and soybeans are now seeded in the new bed. However, I bought some ready plants at Lowe's last weekend and put them in Dad's old bed. Here are the spinach, cabbage, broccoli, onions, and garlic.