Garden party?

I have been wanting to plant a garden since we moved out here to farm land North Carolina. I don't know if I'll be any good at it, but it is appealing regardless. Thus far I have been either preggo or with a small child and have never felt like I had enough time to dedicate to a garden.....until now. We may be a little late since it is already the end of February, but we are gonna cross our fingers and hope that the 7 yards of compost we had delivered today will make our land ready for planting in the next month or two. If we stick to the plan the garden will be approx. 12x30 feet.....so pretty good sized. I am pretty sure that I am just gonna do the basic stuff; corn, beans, bell peppers, squash, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, herbs and watermelon. We'll see. There are various planting dates from March 15th through the summer and into fall, and if I have a good yield I may try for lettuce and blueberries.....things that are a little tougher. I hope this works out, I feel like I will really like gardening and it would make a great hobby for me.....I'm all about the hobbies that you can eat! We are also taking our second stab at composting. Our first design had some major flaws.....like how to get the finished compost out of the heap, but this time Dan is making me two 30 gallon composter barrels that I can turn which should make the process work a lot faster.....and I can just dump the compost out into a wheel barrow when its done. We are also gonna try setting up rain barrels.....we are starting with two 55 gallon barrels on the back of the house. I love the idea of using our resources to our advantage, and I LOVE anything thats free. So, now all we need to do is rent a tiller this weekend which Dan is going to use on ALL our land beause we are also going to lay grass seed, rake out the compost, set up stakes and string to divide the sections for different crops, pick out and buy seeds, plant, water and grow. Oh, and assemble composting bins and rain barrels. Yikes, thats a lot of work!! Wish us luck. We'll probably need it!

the truck dropping off our compost this afternoon

it's a LOT of compost

Maddie enjoying the hill of dirt!

it's nice that she isn't afraid to get dirty....

hopefully that won't change

walking out behind our house to our wheat

Charlotte my beautiful