Some More Progress in Digging

Brother got even farther today with the digging. Now we have at least a tiny strip all the way to the edge of our planned plot:

Some progress in digging, originally uploaded by hum97.

Plotting the Plot

Before digging
Originally uploaded by hum97

This is where we want to put our garden in the back yard. There has been a garden there a couple different times since our family started living in this house, but it's been a good many years, enough for the grass to all grow back. We put out some cardboard a few months ago to try and start killing off the grass. We really should have done that last fall, but better late than never...

You can see from the white pole and the white flags that we want to extend the garden farther than the cardboard part, but we ran out of cardboard. We're cleared by Iowa One Call to dig, so we'll see how it goes! Here's the first shovel in the ground:

Tommy Digging, originally uploaded by hum97.

Here's some progress after T dug for a while (note the colored "all clear" flags):

Some progress in digging, originally uploaded by hum97.

Sprouting Tray & Transplants

We're starting all our seeds in these little mini peat pellet greenhouses that we can cover with a plastic lid to keep the heat in:

Sprouting Tray
Originally uploaded by hum97

We have two whole trays we plan to fill up with starters, here I am with one of them:

Me with sprouting tray
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Some of our seedlings have gotten pretty big already, so we transplanted them to bigger pots, most of which are bio-degradable so we can put them straight into the ground, pot and all:

Sprouting Tray & Transplants
Originally uploaded by hum97

Here I am with one of the pea sproutlings, it already looks much happier in the bigger pot!

Me with sproutling
Originally uploaded by hum97