the planting has begun!

The planting has begun...

My housemate john planted 72 tomato plants (yikes!) along with a select few other veggies to be transplanted later...

Our land is FULL of rocks. Everywhere. Pieces of foundation. Its ridiculous. So needless to say, using a tiller is out of the question. So we just use our brute strength, a hoe, and the garden weasel to make our raised beds by hand!

Here is the status of the herb garden. I transplanted some garlic chives from over in the other garden, and I also planted parsley and cilantro.

Here is the rest of the land we have to work with. Still lots to be done, lots of beds to be raised, lots of fun to be had!

The garden with the VS house in the background. Looking good!

snakes.

a few weeks ago john and i trompsed out into the plot across the street to get started on clearing out what will become our garden. we spent hours raking out brush, bushes, trash, etc. from the land. as i was raking out a big section of hay, our neighbors came running as they heard me let out a big scream. there was a (in my opinion) HUGE snake writhing around in what we quickly named "the snake pit." john took the snake across the street to an empty piece of land. and i kept raking. until i found another one. and another. and another. we ended up removing 6 snakes from the pit and i'm pretty sure i heard others rustling about in there. oh the adventures of starting up this garden....