This is a cute picture of Izi throwing a bouncy ball to Duke. He loves to play ball/catch/frizbee with anyone or anything willing. We've seen him try to toss the tennis ball to the cat many times. The cat is not a willing participant of fetch. Anyway, behind them in the far corner of our yard is the BEFORE picture of where we put our new garden boxes.
Scott built the boxes and we put ground cloth on the bottom. Izi and Oakley are helping us pound in the staples, they did a really great job! We later applied stain/water repellent. This was last Wed. It took most of the day to build the boxes and move the rocks. Plus we bought a new yard wagon to help with the moving of the rocks, but we had to stop so Scott could take us on a few rides, he even took me :))) It was a lot of fun!
This is today. It was good enought weather last Wed and today, but the rest of the days inbetween were pretty windy and cold. They girls had a lot of fun playing in the water and are taking a break here. Notice Duke trying to play and Izi doing whatever her sisters are. I'm surprised she's still dressed.
This is the mostly finished product. Scott (in true Scott fashion) had to rearrange some of the bordering rocks and add more. But we layed down more ground cloth under the new rocks and boxes, put the boxes and rocks on, and filled them with yummy peat moss and garden soil. We covered them tonight with more ground cloth (I think it's becoming an obsession-NO WEEDS!). The nifty white rocks are courtesy of the "forest" behind our yard. They're really chunks of cement we think. Who cares, they are free and look great for now.
These are our seedlings we planted last week for FHE. At the top we have corn-we got a "new" kind that has red kernals, we also got the yellow kind. Below that is a row of cantelope, then a row of watermelon then our mini, carving and GIANT pumpkins. We have other things to plant, but I'm sure only my mom and dad care about what those are. So there you have it, the before, after and what we're going to put in it.
