Garden Prepping

When I moved to my new house I was blessed with apple trees, grape vines, and 3 garden boxes already established. However, the grape vines are badly in need of a pruning, the apple trees aren't doing so well, and the boxes are badly overrun with weeds. So the good Lord provideth and now I need to worketh! (yea I'm cool like that)

Lil Man ready to help Momma! 

I have to say I'm very blessed cause I was left with a well house that had just about every garden tool imaginable along with tons of clay pots and it was all organized! So what if I need to put a little back work into the garden. Sweating is good for the soul! 

This is about halfway done. 

I met a few friends along the way! 

As I was hoeing the box I discovered it had grub worms and snails and a few other friends that might help. So I plan on establishing some natural defenses for the boxes. My mother used Seven Dust (I think that is how you spell it) only because she didn't know any better. However, I'm not into chemicals  in my garden so I know about Marigolds and Ladybugs....... I need to do some more research!

While trying to reach the corners I accidentally busted the wood! 

And Finished! (almost) 

After I started clearing out the box I realized this box had strawberry plants! So I saved as many as I could and either replanted or either left the roots in the dirt. I love strawberries so this will be great when they start producing!  I will be clearing out the other two boxes soon but I'm going to try a new method on them that I recently learned about called Lasagna gardening. Its basically a process of growing good healthy dirt. You can learn about it Here.   

I'll show you soon the other boxes and hopefully how well I made my lasagna!! Until then God Bless!