new garden area

we saw blueberry plants on sale at costco and that sparked the garden reinvention.  with the beds in the garden area, we had mostly mulch in that area, and not much gardening space.  we wanted to better utilize the area--and grow more plants!  we thought it'd be really fun to have the blueberry bushes, but in researching how they thrive, we learned they require an acidic soil.  so we decided to use the smaller beams from the existing beds and create a square bed for just the blueberries with the different soil.  david cut up the longer boards to make a border around the electrical box and at the base of the garden so the soil won't run out into the cul-de-sac (we ran into the mulch floating away after a few really good rainstorms last year).  our neighbors have raspberries in the small spaces by the electrical and cable boxes, and they grew shoots over the winter that were popping up in our garden area and their lawn.  we asked them if we could dig them up and replant them in our garden area and they said of course.  so we have 3 raspberry shoots and 3 blackberry shoots (wild from the church lot next to our house) that are now a part of the new garden!  the rest will be a ton of tomato plants, zucchini, and tomatillo.  from the past years we've learned these are the only plants we really eat and use, so we'll just plant them this year.

it rained all day yesterday, and the sun came out around 5.  just in time for pace to have some run-around time before dinner and bed.  he loves all the dandelions in our yard, and had fun finding all the poofy ones and blowing them all over the yard.