How Does Your Garden Grow?

You may recall last year my kid and I decided to try our hands at raised bed gardening. We built two boxes with left over 2"x4"s from another project and only planted one of the boxes. In it we planted five strawberry plants and two mini yellow squash plants. Being overrun with squash later caused me to reconsider my plans for the second garden box.

This image intentionally posted in black and white for dramatic effect to convey it's an image from last year. : P

Well I'm happy to report that we finally got the empty garden box planted! I found a basket of 10 strawberry plants on sale for only $6 and my kid helped me get them in some new dirt. I realize the box will be overrun with strawberries and I'm okay with that. We can always transplant them elsewhere later.

Ten happy little strawberry plants.

Big Goonie and her pup pose with all of the strawberry plants!

Big Goonie shows off the happy strawberry plants we planted last year.

Another part of last year's plan included placing 1-3 blueberry bushes in the vacant space between the left garden box and the stone wall. While I haven't completely abandoned that idea, for the time being I've decided to transplant some iris that were overrunning some day lilies and bring in some more flowers instead.

I finished getting the iris in the ground well past dusk.

Ideally I'd like to put in two more garden boxes on the terrace. That will help complete the space, but most importantly, it will eliminate an awkward place we have to mow! Now, off to find more boards!