Sunday Planting Day

Seamus and I met Sarah at her house at noon on Sunday, the plan being to first shop for our plants, till the soil/clay :), get soil from Carondelet Park with Sarah's brother, Mark's, help, then plant.  As usual, the forecast showed that rain was very likely, so we weren't sure how much we'd get done.  We consulted a great book of Sarah's, Square Foot Gardening, and made our list of vegetables to get at the store.  We left Seamus with Nick to watch NBA all day. 

We went to Home Depot, and while Sarah stood in line to rent a tiller, I got the plants: heirloom tomatoes and a few other tomato varieties (16 total), 16 basil plants, 3 types of onions, garlic, and 4 peppers (orange, jalapeno, red, and yellow).  

We got home and started tilling the garden area.  We didn't know how deep to go or really what we were doing, but we dove in and tried it.  We met Mark Farmer in the rain at Carondelet Park and filled 4 huge trash containers with soil/compost.  It was raining pretty hard on us!  Mark brought his adorable 2 month old puppy, Cocoa (Sarah insists Mark named her after a designer). 

When we returned to Sarah's, Mark tilled the 4'x12' garden area like it was nothing!  We combined all the Carondelet soil with what was already in the ground, and finally we were ready to plant!  The rain wasn't so bad by then.  Sarah and I then dug in and planted our vegetables. Here it is:

10 tomato plants closest to the fence,  the basil  on the right next to the shed, the other 6 tomato plants to the left of the basil, then a row of onions (purple, white, and yellow), and the 4 peppers in the front on the right.  We still have to plant the garlic; I found out it's better to plant the individual cloves, not the whole bulb like I did Sunday :) 

I love our garden!!  Can't wait to watch it grow and produce.  Yum.