We live in a newly developing suburb, and we don't have neighbours in the house behind us, or to the right, so the land isn't fully graded yet, which has caused troubles growing our lawn (which we planted last fall). You can see, especially in the back, beside our compost, the drainage issue we've had... every time it rains that area gets flooded, taking any grass seed with it. So... we're going to try to put some raised beds in there so that we won't have to grow grass, and it won't look so awful. Our soil is also very very compacted, and basically a wonderful mucky clay (can you sense my sarcasm). So we're going to have to put a lot of compost, peat moss, manure, and sand in there to enrich and lighten up the soil. Which will be quite costly... but once it's there, it should help us produce a better yield.
Along the right side of the yard you can see where we've turned the soil for gardening. This space consists of 2 rectangular spaces = 7' x 32' and 4' x 14' . We also have a turned the soil in behind our garage to form a garden space that's 21' x 10'. The plan for now, is to grow as many vegetables in these spaces, as we can! I've started planting some seedlings and they're doing quite well. It's so satisfying to have the seeds that you have sown start to sprout up and get stronger.
I don't know how successful we will be with our first year of our garden adventure, but we're going to try our best and hopefully be able to store some of our harvest in the root cellar.
Wish us luck! We're going to need it.
