And today we began to till, well he did!

Today was an awesome day for getting the yard ready for what will hopefully be a very productive year for our garden(S). Yep gardens! We have decided to split up our seeds into 3 separate gardens

1. My Autumn garden 

• Corn 
• Jack o lanterns
• 1 or 2 GIANT pumpkins
• & my special treat to me Fairytale pumpkins! 

2. Dustins not so traditional vegetable garden

• Chili peppers
• 2 kinds of tomatoes
• 2 kinds of onions 
• 2 kinds of beans 
• & maybe a pumpkin or two

3. Ethans Garden

• Snap peas
• Jack-o lantern
• Watermelon
• Birdhouse gourd 
• Sunflower 
• 1 GIANT pumpkin
• & a few stalks of corn!

But, we are no where close to getting the planting started but I think we got a pretty good start of it today!
Let me add that along with the not planting sooner fail. We also failed at removing the grass properly and unless you knew better you wouldn't know there was ever a garden in our back yard! The grass grew back like it had never been tilled, dug up or planted in! 

Yep, he's re-tilling the garden from last year! We are awesome at growing grass!

In addition to the getting the garden started we also purchased a couple more compost bins. Our original one purchased last year got chewed on and dug at by a dog and we thought it was toast since the side was half hanging off. Turns out it just needed to be snapped back together and positioned somewhere more sturdy! So instead of 2 we have 3 compost bins. Which is fine by us! We can never have enough compost for all the planting & growing we are hoping to do over the next several years!

We thought our original one was too busted up but, it looks like we have 3 now!

So all in all it was a really good day and  we got a good head start into the planting season (We hope!) 

My Autumn garden is 1 quarter tilled! It will go to the apple tree.

Speaking of that apple tree! I am happy to say. One thing we planted last year survived the cold, the wind storms & our apparent lack of green thumbs!! We have new buds growing on our tree!

Our family apple tree!

So, I think if things can continue the way they have been going this week, we have a pretty good chance of something else surviving this growing season! We shall see!

Thanks for reading!