Garden...

We really wanted to find a house we could rent that had enough land that we could plant a garden (I know, tall requests for renters). We were so happy to find this house and the landlords were more than willing to let us take up some of the sod and plant a garden. We wanted to get our seeds in the ground pretty quick so this is a run down of how moving week went:

Monday - Emptied out our storage unit and move all of the contents up to the house.

Tuesday - Get all of our stuff out of my in law's house. Clean my in law's basement where we had been staying. Spend our first night in the new place.

Wednesday - Husband wakes up bright and early and maps out where he wants to put the garden. We wanted 3 beds that were 5 x 30 feet. Unpack and put stuff away. That night, rent a sod cutter from Home Depot and pull up all the sod. Fill up our truck and drive the sod down to my sister in laws who can use it.

Thursday - Husband goes back to work. I spend my day trying to get things unpacked and put away.
Friday - Still unpacking. Almost done. Buy all the seeds for the garden.
Saturday - Borrow grandparents tiller. Till the whole garden area and till in fertilizer. Mow the massive lawn (I did this, it took 2 1/2 hours... and I was already super exhausted from everything else. Had my first doubts about moving into this place with the massive yard!). Plant our garden!!!

We were all moved in with a garden planted in 6 days!!! It was nuts, and I was so exhausted by the end of the week! I can't believe that we did all that in such a short amount of time. But we were able to get our garden that we've been dreaming about put in.

Here's what we planted:

Spaghetti squash

Butternut squash

Zucchini

Crook neck squash

White beans

Green beans

Three kinds of tomatoes

Swiss Chard

Beets

Watermelon (not sure if this will grow, but wouldn't it be cool if it did?)

Green leaf lettuce

Spinach

Sugar snap peas

Cilantro

Mint

Basil

Peppers

Pumpkin

Sunflowers!!

Our little plants are starting to poke through the ground now, we are so excited! I hope that some of this stuff grows, that would be so cool!