The Greenhouse is Heating Up

We built a greenhouse about a month ago which has been great for our seedlings!

We're lucky to have a landlord that is happy to have us tearing up the sod and putting in a garden. We've got big plans for the backyard which are coming along slowly but surely and will hopefully be ready when we want to start planting out in the yard.

Our lasagna-gardened (heart-shaped) bed

So far we've been lasagna gardening (aka compost mulching) which basically means creating a compost pile in the spot where you want to garden so that it breaks down right in place. We're doing this because part of our back yard seems pretty compacted back fill - not exactly the best garden material but I'm hoping that our combination of sod, leaves, coffee grinds, compost and paper bags will be enough for our plants to grow. The other consideration is that normally it works best if one 'lasagna gardens' in the fall so that the pile has the whole winter to break down. We didn't have the materials to do that so we just did it last weekend. Everything is an experiment!

Tomatoes are up!