Well, it's been a while since we've written a blog. Life just creates so many obstacles and time seems to just pass by so quickly! Our garden is coming along. We've had a couple of upsets. We've had some successes. Most of all....we're learning how to be better gardeners. Here's my lovely, Nic a week or so before we lost one of the corn.
Our area out here in Huntsville was hit with a round of devastating storms and tornadoes. We were SO lucky to have been in an area that did not see any major damage. Most of North Alabama was out of power for about a week so we headed out to our (awesome) friends' house in the Atlanta, Ga area . When we came back to our house in Huntsville, we realized that we lost some of our plants. Our poor raspberry was completely destroyed along with most of our seedlings.
A couple of weeks after the storms, we started discovering animal tracks in the garden. At first, we thought it was Mr. Man sneaking around in the garden so we paid it no mind. The tracks started out small, but then they turned into giant holes in the soil. Roots were being pulled up and two of the black bean plants along with one of the corn stalks....and the bigger of the two, were destroyed!
Gosh....we were SO proud of that corn. I was devastated when we walked up to the garden to discover our pride and glory hacked in half on the ground.
That's when we realized that we had a critter problem. So, in comes the chicken wire fence. It goes all the way around the perimeter of the garden box. It actually looks pretty good.
It's so crazy to think that 80% of our garden is from seed. We just invested in some watermelon, green pepper, cherry tomato, and assorted herb seedlings from our local nursery, Bennett's to help make up for what we lost.
We also finished off our herb table bed....and it looks spectacular. Just like my vision:)
I started a sunflower bed in the back of the garden. Another dumpster diving excursion success. We found a wooden flower bed fence right here in 5 points. Perfect, right? We planted giant mammoth and lemon queen sunflowers with marigold and nasturtium...and all from seed.
Here's what the garden looks like today. It's starting to come together with patience and perseverance.
Sunflower Garden
Here's our garden table complete with cat grass, cilantro, mint, dill and chives
with 2 potted cantaloupes and a watermelon. We're going to have to move the melons soon.
Probably no corn this year, but we are so proud that this was from seed! It's about 5 ft. tall already.
Yummy compost
We love our beautiful 5 points house and garden :)
Our new angel trumpet from Bennett's Nursery
Rosemary, thyme and sage
And our blog would not be complete without an appearance by our house security, Mr. Man.
He loves running water, so I usually give him a quick drink when I'm watering the garden:)
More to come soon!
Happy Gardening :)
Chrisha
