Humboldt County Herb Garden

Here is our new pretty herb garden. Designed by Mamma Donna and myself.

Before=YUCK

Afters=Pretty

Starting to fill in ;-)

My Veggie Garden is in! ;-)

Last week while Bob took 9 days of vacation his mother came up from So Cal to check out our new first home and help me around the house. While she was here our number one priority was getting my vegetable beds in and planted. This proved to be slightly difficult because our yard is pretty sloped in that location and we had to build a fence around it as well to keep the puppies out. As you can imagine there was much confusion and disagreements on how to do it right but after finally getting everything level and square the garden came together perfectly. :-) I LOVE IT! So without much further ado, here it is.

What's in the garden:

2 tomato plants

broccoli 

snow peas

sugar snap peas

green beans 

carrots

onions

garlic 

artichoke 

strawberries 

hot peppers 

red and russet potatoes (in wine barrels) 

Ultimate before 

Ripping up the grass and setting fence posts

Beds going in 

The beds are 6x8 and 6 in deep at the front and 12 in at the back

Mamma Donna shoveling in the soil mixture 

Fence coming along

Zoey our garden guard dog 

Complete! YAY

Baby green beans and sugar snap peas sprouting 

    

The Fence is Done

• Well, its been done for weeks now but we have just been so busy that I have had no time to post! The fence turned out beautifully and I can't do anything in my front yard without someone walking by and saying "nice fence!" or "good job!" However, we can't take all the credit because we got really lucky finding our contractor Jerry. We had several fence companies come out to give us estimates, none of them seemed to understand what we wanted and never got back to us once we thought they understood. Jerry understood right away what we were envisioning and added his own great ideas. Needless to say we will have him out again to help with some other project.
  

Before

Posts in place

At this stage our neighbors start to freak out. We get nervous looks and questions like "why are you building your fence backwards?" "Is it going to stay that tall?" "Why are those board shorter than the rest?" 

Final product

Neighbors approve and tell us how crazy they though we were while the fence was being built. 

Old fence gone and pretty plants in its place