Raised Vegetable Garden

What do you do during your 1st born's 1st day of Kindergarten? Well you build a raised Vegetable garden of course! So we did!  When I say "we" I mean Juan. He built the vegetable garden and I went to Lowes and bought vegetable plants!

Since I am not really an avid gardener (yet)...I started to research vegetable gardens online. Pinterest became my best friend.   The best advice I found was: 'To just do it. That you'll figure it out along the way'. I have no idea how long it takes for my veggies to grow. I know they need water, and sun. I know I need to pull weeds if I see them. I also know that I don't want to use any pesticides of any kind. I'm excited to grow my own vegetables, and to know exactly where they came from. It doesn't get any fresher than this!  I'll definitely post again on the status of my veggies. Hopefully they'll make it to the dinner table!

Don't you love my big gulp drink sitting the garden? I definitely was working up a sweat planting all those new plants in the new garden! Tomato plants on the left. Lettuce in the middle. Broccoli on the right. Romaine lettuce is the far back right. 

So why am I wanting a raised vegetable garden?  A few reasons.

1. Grass and weeds have a harder time growing in the raised garden, as opposed to a garden on the ground.

2. It's easy to tend when it's raised, so I don't have to bend down to care for it.

3. The dogs and other critters have a harder time getting to it, since it isn't on the ground.

My cherry tomato plants.  Do you spot a cute little boy's hand in the picture? That's my little Ethan. 

We bought umpteen bags of soil to fill the raised veggie garden. I can't wait to plant more veggies!  The rest of the veggies are going to be planted by seeds.   I'll post more on growing my veggies by seed another time.


My goal is to have three raised vegetable gardens side by side with paver stones in between them, so we don't have to mow in between the gardens. (when I saw 'we' of course I mean Juan )