Adventures in Gardening-In the beginning

One of my latest journeys have been in gardening. We bought a house,our first, in July of 2014. So,last summer, I started work on a garden. The yard was pretty much undeveloped. After the first shovelful, I understood why the previous owners may not have wanted to plant much. Our soil is miserable red clay. But,after much blood,sweat,and tears(heavy on the sweat),the garden was established.

Before

I wanted a potager garden. I wandered through Pinterest land, pinning many,many pictures of potagers around the world. I laid out the beds. This is where the "tears" part of "blood,sweat,and tears" came into play.(math is NOT one of my strengths) I was also unemployed(and broke) last summer, so I had to get creative with the materials that I used. I wove the wattle for the raised beds from the prunings of apple trees. I knew a lady whose family have an apple orchard. I asked if I could collect the prunings in the spring.

They didn't come out too bad.

And this made all that "blood,sweat,and tears" worthwhile.

And this is what it looked like at the end of last summer.

Spring is finally here,now.And it's time to start a new adventure in the garden. And for all the meteorologists calling for snow on Sunday,the first day of Spring, you can kiss my.....It's Spring,damn it!