My First Post!!!

Well, I've been reading gardening blogs all day, and have been so inspired I just had to start my own. I'm an Australian that decided to travel to Europe. I fell in love whilst working in Austria, and am now happily married. My husband and I live in a small rural village of about 25 houses. Most families here are farmers. We have a house in the centre of the village (literally) and therefore no farm, but we do have a nice sized garden. For the last 15 years my husband worked hard to maintain a beautiful lawn with a few trees, very much like a park. Now he has me, and my ideas of gardening. Over the last few weeks we have been planning and building a raised vegetable garden. I want to grow (and eat of course!) lots of organic vegetables and herbs. Unfortunately the process of building the beds has taken so long that we are already into summer and I fear many of the plants I want will have to wait until next year.
This will be my first proper vegetable garden, and so I'm sure I have a lot to learn by doing, and by reading. Most of my gardening experience has been flower beds, roses, lavender, and all in a rather different climate from here.

Today I spent time outside making a plan for my new beds. I'm hoping we can complete them by Thursday. I have two beds, each 1 metre x 3 metres. I already have herbs in pots and look forward to some companion planting with the veggies.