New Year, New Garden!

So, it was really sad to leave my old place, mainly because I would be leaving my garden and all the perennials. But now I have a new place to work with and that is exciting.

Our backyard is mostly dirt from the dogs running around, so I figured why not put a garden in there since I wouldn't really be digging up any grass. We just really started this project yesterday and have a bunch more work to do. I say that Phase 1 has been completed. Here is before:


We had some crab grass to dig up, but not much. Flowers grow along the fence in the alley. I dug out the partial sidewalk that was under dirt and then used bricks to build a retaining wall, of sorts. I also put bricks along the fence on the right because we're going to bring in some more black dirt so we have a good healthy top soil. Then I picked up a couple of 50# bags of compost at the co-op and we'll mix that in as well. But here is one night's work - and Robbie: