Getting Started-Harvest 2011 on the Horizon

So here we go! My first blog and I am truly lost. Can't figure out how to customize my background, so hopefully that will change in the near future. It's not that I don't like the birds-I love them and feed the ones in our area everyday. It just doesn't say "victuals"!

My husband and I have been kitchen gardeners ever since we moved to our half acre on Johns Island in July of  1998. The gardening started the next year. I've always enjoyed the kitchen garden concept-growing veggies, fruits, herbs and flowers all in one garden to supply ingredients you need in the kitchen and on the table.

This year, we are having to create a new garden area. Our old plot, which was a sunny spot when we moved here, has now become much more shaded as our oak trees have grown. A tree can grow a lot in 12 years! So, we are lucky to be renting the half acre lot next to us to run our landscaping business. There is a perfect, sunny, south facing plot next to the property line we share. This will make it super convenient to tend to. And when you garden w/out chemicals, there is a ton of tending to do.

So the goal of this blog-other than motivating yours truly to keep up with the garden and not get lazy come August-is to follow the complete journey of a 36'x36' plot of grass to a productive and diverse "victual" garden. Ground breaking begins tomorrow am!

                    Original garden-pic from last year-will still be used this year.