How Does Your Garden Grow

Very very slowly... okay, it's been less than a week... I'm just super impatient.

Here are some shots of what we've been doing around the house lately. The big boxes in the ground are our garden.

The backyard looks a little torn up, and I was going to finish fixing it this week, but things got busy, and I felt like taking a break from yardwork (since we worked outside Friday, Saturday, Monday, AND Tuesday. I just want to be CLEAN for one day!).

Over the labor day weekend we planted a garden, dug up the entire flower bed on the front walk, and hauled wood chips from the backyard to landscape the front yard. It looks a lot better. And the grass is getting really thick and green. Maybe in a month or so I'll get brave and try to kill some of the crab grass in hopes that "real" grass will grow. I'd just rather have crab grass than no grass...

The backyard still needs work, and I've been watering it hoping that a lawn will grow. We also plan on fencing it soon. We decided just to use lattice board and some 2x4s, since we'll only be here 8 more months, we don't want to spend a lot of money putting up a fence. We don't have any dogs or anything, just a little Vince, so it should be sturdy enough. Then when we leave we'll just take the lattice with us and use it at our new house, wherever that may be!

I'll post more pictures of the backyard once it starts looking pretty (probably around December).