Finally, the garden is ready!

Completing the fence

My husband adds the finishing touches to his self-made gate.

Soil to plant in at last!

Doggies are very tired after their Helpful input

It's Sunday afternoon. My husband is about to start the BBQ. I've had a very fullfilling weekend in the garden! It was great, I've even been dreaming about vegetable gardens (that's a little sad!). So my vegetable garden is finally complete! We made a no-dig garden with two beds each 1x3 metres. We finished the frames and fence last week. On Saturday we filled the beds with lucerne hay, old cow manure, straw and compost. That was the best method I used at school when I studies horticulture, worked a treat. My hubby made the gate.

Today we topped up the beds, as they had sunk a little. I expect they will settle quite a bit more, especially after todays added worms get to work. I think I should wait a week or so before planting, just to let everything settle down, but I'm too eager to see my plants grow. So I'll plant some of the tomato seedlings that the naughty dogs chewed on a bit. They may die anyway but the leaves are still green, so I'll give it a go. I know my whole veggie patch is really late, but I'll try it anyway. At least next year I'll be ontime and expecting a load of vegetables.

Today some of my green beans sprouted. If all goes well, I should have beans to eat by the end of August. I wish we didn't have such a cold winter here otherwise I could grow something over winter. But last winter we had very little snow and it was still three feet deep at times.