Planting

The dreaded long awaited time came to plant the garden. I'll be honest and say that I was really nervous! I was relying on the little bits of knowledge that I had gained from word of mouth, and Garrett and my upstairs neighbors previous experience.

We started by planning out the garden. This required knowing how many rows were in there. I'm here to tell you that there are 37 rows in our garden. Yep, you read that right. 37 of them! We told ourselves we wouldn't plant on every single row, so I felt a little better. We decided to put in carrots, peas, beans, bell peppers, tomatoes, corn, acorn squash, butternut squash, zucchini, two kinds of pumpkins, cantaloupe, watermelon, and potatoes.

After skipping a row for the plants that are eventually more widespread and viney, doing multiple rows of a few things, and allowing some neighbors to have a few rows as well, the entire garden was full. It's a little overwhelming! Mostly because it will be difficult to stay on top of all of the inevitable weeds. But we are determined to do our best!