Organically growing...

Our backyard has a new addition - an organic vegetable garden. A friend introduced me to "square foot gardening," and we're taking on the challenge. Square foot gardening, though it looks quaint and cute, actually has high yields and takes up very little space. Gone are the aisles in between row plants that waste space and water! Gone are hours of backbreaking hoeing and weeding (since there are no weeds in the now nonexistent aisles)! Gone are the pesticides and fertilizers we used to eat along with the fruits of our labor!

First I cleared the ground.


Then Rafi made the frame out of cedar. He put on some pretty brackets, too.


Then we filled it with a special mix of soil and peat moss from Natural Gardener in South Austin.


Here's a toast to new beginnings and lots to eat!