The Garden of the Williams

We finally started working on a garden today (you're not supposed to plant in Edmonton until "May long weekend," which was last weekend, so we're not that far behind). The goal: to turn that tiny strip of dirt you see running behind the house into a strip big enough to plant. Today we got most of the sod out. We ran out of steam about supper time, so we'll try and get the rest of the sod out tomorrow. Then we add more dirt, and build a little frame around it. We already have all the plants, sitting on our kitchen table - so we'd better get the dirt ready pretty soon. Hopefully it won't be too long before I can get some pictures up of the garden all planted and ready to grow.



We are planting: cherry tomatoes (2 varieties), cucumbers, zucchini, strawberries, and a raspberry bush. And we already have a rhubarb - you can see it in the picture in front of David.



Today was an exciting day even before we started gardening - we graduated to "green stripe" in Taekwon Do." The levels are: white, yellow stripe, yellow, green stripe, green, blue stripe, blue, red stripe, red, black. So we are now on level 4 out of 10 on our way to black! :-) Here are some pictures of us back when we were yellow stripes...