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Husband surprised me by borrowing the neighbors rototiller yesterday. Today we tilled up a small spot about 15 feet by 25 feet to start.

We do own a large farm, but everything he has set up for the livestock and crop farming, has never had a garden. Only took me a year of nagging (we were just married a year ago) to get my teeny tiny spot to plant.

I also have planted a few fruits in other places, there is one old apple tree, and we have a clump of rhubarb that needs to be relocated (he keeps trying to mow it down!). Discovered what I thought were crabapple trees are not all, two are some type of plum. Lots of pruning to do this next winter!

I have been reading your board for awhile now and it has really inspired me, so Thank You to you all. Here is a picture.

Congratulations! You'll see, in no time at all that space won't be enough, and you'll carry on nagging your husband...

Great news, now get planting.

Congrats :)

Wow! How exciting - there is nothing more pleasurable - well, not much - than seeing a patch of bare earth just waiting to be planted out.

Know what you mean about the nagging The first plot was easy, but when I started wanting a second, then a third and fourth, the grumbling started.

The fourth plot was a bit of a pain, it had 3 stumps in one tiny area.

It took 4 months. We grow in raised beds except for the potatoes and so a rototiller isn't necessary, but a lot of digging is, luckily my partner doesn't mind the digging, he detests weeding after things are planted.

Looks like you've got a nice spot from the picture. Good luck with it!

Lois

oooh, nicely done!
What are you planning to plant in it? Are you making it flower pretty? or functional?

Gidday

What a way to start a marriage, a full year of nagging.

Turn that off now and start feeding him up on lovery home grown vegies then he will probably want to take it over and extend it.

Planting on monday, that is my next day off work, and it needs a fence to keep the dogs and chickens out.

I don't think I'll need to do anymore nagging. The neighbors have already come around and told him it is MUCH too small! :)

He loves peas and I'll be planting rows of them, hoping he'll like the fresh ones and come around to the idea.

Mare Owner wrote:I don't think I'll need to do anymore nagging. The neighbors have already come around and told him it is MUCH too small! :)

Always much more effective if an "outsider" does it! Maybe you should have got them to work on him right from the beginning?

Congratulations, and you have plenty of space there to extend it!

Finally I have a garden!!!

That's exactly the way I felt when I found-out, by sheer determination, how to get my own wee plot!
I'm newly arrived here, Orcas Island, WA, and I want to stay for as long as possible because it is truly amazing.
Since this is my first time doing this--blogging?--I'm going to keep this brief . . . well, brief for me!
My plot's even smaller--4' X 7'-- than the plot of the person [who bears an uncanny resemblance to the main character in "To The Manor Born"] to whom I'm replying. That's why I'm trying something new: Vertical gardening. Sure, runner beans and tomatoes are traditionally grown with sticks/poles, but not courgettes/zucchini! I made a couple of A-frames for the toms and courgettes, and a teepee for the beans to climb. I'll have lettuce and/or coriander inside. The A-frames already have Ital. parsley and onions (from sets) inside. At the corners of the plot are pairs of nasturtiums. Love 'em in a salad or sandwich. By the two outer edges of the A-frames, but away from the beans are more onions and some garlic.

That's it for now.

p.s. your horse is gorgeous!

Hi Greenie and welcome! That photo is Penelope Keith who also starred as Margo in The Good Life which I think was called something like Good Neighbours in the USA. (It's an automatic avatar you get when you first join but you can put your own avatar below it if you wish).

Hooray Greenie! Please share pics of your vertical gardening if you can. That is a great way to make use of small space!

I am still doing my "happy dance" for my little plot too. :) Got my sweetcorn seeds in, hoping to add my peas and onions this weekend.

Hey, Margo!

The photos will take a bit longer than obtaining the plot. I don't own a digital and I don't know who'd loan me one. It'd be pretty cool to be able to find one by the time the teepee and A-frames don't look so stark. Know what I mean?

Greenie