square-foot-gardening Okay I have started making little life jackets for the vegetables in our veggie garden. I am even thinking about building an Ark now.

June 10th frost kept ringing in my ears as I thought about planting. I remember my dad would talk about a killing frost around the first full moon of June.

So we waited until after the full moon before planting our vegetable garden. The temperature got as low as just one degree off freezing so I think the wait was worth it.

Once we planted our little square foot garden it started to rain and hasn’t let up much since. Now it’s the first week in July and it’s still raining. I think it’s raining even harder than it did in June.

I am sure if it wasn’t for the view of our backyard from my office window I would be completely depressed by this point.

Let’s Go To… Oooops It’s Raining Again.

The rain has put a damper on so many activities this year and the only ones not complaining are the plants. Well those plants that haven’t been washed down stream that is.

Vegetable Garden Draining Well

I started our first 4 foot square garden right in the spot that holds the most water. I thought it was the best location in our yard even though it would need a lot of work to make it drain well.

After removing the sod and digging up to a depth of about a foot I added plenty of peatmoss and top soil which made a huge difference in drainage.

It was bad enough that in the spring we had ducks landing in the water and they were able to swim around like it was a pond. They are in for a bumpy landing come next spring.

We have had a few down pours that all but buried the smaller vegetables like the radishes and swiss chard. Even though they took quite a pounding they came right back after the rain stopped.

I may not have to use those life jackets after all.