Garden at 9 days
In an attempt to keep myself focused on my garden this year, I'm going to try and keep a log of what I'm doing and the results I'm seeing. Hopefully this will also help guilt me into making sure that I keep checking up on the garden and taking care of it.
Well, we decided to move our raised beds up to a location that gets better sunlight as our vegetables last year just didn't get enough. All in all, it took me about 3 weekends to get the old bed moved up to the hill, leveled, and then build a second bed for planting. We ran out of dirt from cutting into the hill as the hill is a pretty steep one. I ended up putting in some old rubber mulch as a fill under the front bed. Therese and the kids helped me at various points, and I think the results are pretty good.
We're using the same method as last year from the Square Foot Gardening book, although I couldn't get the same vermiculite we used last year. I had to get the bigger, pearl-ized kind. I did find some nice, all vegetable compost called "Foothills" which I combined with some good old fashioned composted cow manure. Lots of changes this year, and hopefully will result in a good crop.
![Close up view of a red cabbage sprout](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2yEJ20ubyOhVjbOz8PaGtzLQMGO2-e9LFT4ijZ05aUka2Sbye2YZbt3OSqgKkegTlcdVamL2pI0jMdBtkfphLAzP8yxL7KU7sy0d6Ml3oTQUT0fjNN0Hljzcu5U4SCR7FAnyIEQ/s320-rw/IMG_20110328_124102.jpg)
![Planting bed showing some sprouts and dig marks from squirrels](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTRKdpo92U_2EVqlfoLdVfVyw4tHh-WJ4zsODe1cpW7aXxEe6vNKi9Jq66HOHg6EAZ6dAu04OIW_7EKu7sUD3nhLcXqujGiuNJIKJDKgShLKzgtOL-2v8ZN7wCwDzo8wlkWz-lg/s320-rw/IMG_20110328_124216.jpg)
Today's conditions: Cloudy, High of 53°, with showers off and on.
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