I had been thinking about how to landscape around the side door which faces the old driveway. There is an entranceway and two roses which I had planted on April 22, 2010, a Climbing Pinata on the left and a Climbing Joseph's Coat on the right. I attached a trellis to each entranceway post for the roses.

I was considering just putting down weed blocking cloth with red mulch on top, and then just set potted plants on the mulch. So, on May 8, 2010, my wife and I headed for Lowe's to buy the weed blocking cloth.

On the way into Lowe's, we stopped at the how-to books and found one called "All New Square Foot Gardening" by Mel Bartholomew. I had heard of square foot gardening before. Our back yard is mostly shady, and I haven't had much luck with a garden back there. The only part of the yard (besides the front yard) that gets a lot of sun is the side yard next to our old driveway. The soil is poor because of sand, construction debris, etc., so a raised bed would be the only way to grow a garden there. I read the book and decided to try out square foot gardening.

The purpose of this blog is to document my gardening experiences. My vegetable garden is already established, so the first few posts will be historical. In other words, the date of the post will be when I write, but the date the events happened will be included within the post. Many of the things I will try in my gardening will have no purpose other than experimentation. I hope this blog is at least mildly interesting.