My Little Life

Since you asked so nicely (Wait...what's that? You didn't ask? Oh, well, suffer through it anyway...), I decided I'd show you photos of the garden that IS ! It IS growing! (Hard to see, but we added MUCH more top soil...and by "we" I mean, "not me". Mr. Wonderful to the rescue...again!) It IS producing (well, it WILL be)! It IS alive! It IS, come hell or high water, going to be a success!!! (PS...Yes, I WILL be posting the " Mr. Wonderfulest " winner soon! I wanted to be sure to read ALL of the posts first! Soon, very soon, I will post the winner!)

So, I've gotta be totally honest with you...I just about threw in the towel on our garden. Again. I was totally thinking that this straw bale gardening (let's just call it " SBG " shall we?) was the be all and end all of our gardening woes. Cut worms, sandy soil, pocket gophers, sandy soil, dog chasing (i.e. "digging") after aforementioned pocket gophers, and sandy soil have done us in in previous years. I was totally stoked to try SBG this year. Like, totally, dude. We got a bit of a late start...and we used "pellet" type fertilizer (note to self, don't do what we did...liquid or powder would've been better) and went to town... Next mistake (count them, this is #3 already)...not enough topsoil. D-oh!! Then...attack of the (what we thought were) killer mushrooms. Gobs. Tons. Heaps of mushrooms bloomed out of our bales like crazy. Had we been going for a bountiful crop of mushrooms, we'd've been happy as clams. But we weren't. ...