Getting Ready To Garden!

For most states this is harvest season. Time for picking final fruit and vegetable crops. Time for pie-making and canning. Time for tilling compost into your soil to prep for next year's crop.

...not so for us here in Arizona! We are right at the beginning of planting season. Feels very strange to be thinking of planting beans, carrots, broccoli and cabbage, while the rest of our friends and relatives up north are frantically finding ways to cook up and store those tomatoes before the first frost! (really, I'm not sure how it is up there right now...just guessing)

I don't know if I told any of you here about this book, but it was the focus of a church lesson last Sunday about how to prepare a garden here in Arizona. I have actually read this whole book, and so it was the first Sunday in a long time that I wasn't totally lost!

I got all re-excited about starting my garden after finding out that THIS is the time of year to start planting. Still feels so backwards, but we're going to give it a try. Jake and I built our frame for a 4' by 4' square foot garden today, and if I wasn't so tired I would post a picture.

Don't worry, as this project moves along I have a feeling I will be posting many pictures. That's one thing I know how to do to. Take lots of pictures. Glad my skills are going to finally come in handy around here!

Night all! Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend...