Chez Robinson

The plans for our vegetable garden are coming along nicely. Yesterday we completed the first layer for the herb spiral. We built a brick circle, well, an oval really, and filled it with a layer of top soil topped by a layer of Miracle Grow Garden Soil. We had just enough red bricks to make the first layer, so we'll need to pick up more bricks.

Today I started most of our vegetable and herb seeds in Jiffy plastic greenhouse boxes. I bought the greenhouse boxes with little peat pellets that expand when wet. I know it's not really necessary, but as a complete amateur I thought these boxes might help me. Since I have no idea what I am doing I very carefully labeled each row of seeds. Otherwise I'll be staking carrots and expecting tomatoes to grow underground. :)

I still need to plan how I want to plant the vegetables in our garden. I know a compact, weed-free garden is better than a huge plot overgrown with weeds. I hate weeding anyway, so a compact garden sounds good to me. In the coming weeks I need to go ahead and draw out a plan.

So far I think things are going well. I'm really looking forward to watching the seeds sprout in the coming days and weeks.