Laying the foundation - of soil!

Last weekend we got to work on our garden! Not that the inside is completely done, but spring is on its way, and we WILL have home-grown food this summer.

What you don't see in these pictures are the moments of frustration, the grimaces of defeat, and the screams of triumph from our "dump truck getting stuck in the front yard" ordeal. Let's just say, the dirt piles were supposed to be in the back yard...


Here I am loading up the dirt the old fashioned way - without the help of the hydraulic dump... By the way, that was 4.5 yards. Grrrr.....


Here's Tricia laying down some top soil on the side of the old garage so we can put something besides the old holly and hawthorn trees that once grew there.

Here's the newly pruned hedges in the back, without the massive blackberries and ivy that dominated them before. We're planting some red alders (from The Bluff on Whidbey), a diodora cedar (our living Christmas tree), and other native plants in this beginning to our backyard wildlife habitat garden.



And here's the triumphant start to our vegetable garden. Consider this the rough-in stage.

More to come!