The Garden

Not much progress (actually it's pretty much like no progress) has been made on my seeds so it's not even worth sharing.  But I did make some serious progress on the garden front.  I figured I should start looking around in case putting together an area where I could actually grow something takes awhile.  So I wandered over to Home Depot to see what was there.

I found a kit for a raised garden.  Now since the area I've been eyeing was never used for a garden (and is actually pretty thin with soil in general) so I figured doing a raised garden would be the best way for my vegetables to stand a chance.  And there it was...a kit with instructions telling me what to do and having everything all spelled out for me.  So I picked up two 4x4 kits and made my way back home.  A few minutes (well more like 20) later and....

Now you might be thinking 'hey it looks like you have almost no soil' and you'd be right.  Now the kit recommended 8 cubic feet, so according to them I'd need 16 in total.  And at Home Depot all of the bags of gardening soil were 1 cubic foot.  The idea of me dragging home 16 bags of soil seemed completely ridiculous.   Not to mention I wasn't sure that I would actually want 16 cubic feet in total.  So I bought 2 cubic feet to figure out a good gauge of how much more I would need (and plan on shopping online for larger bags).  So here's what 2 cubic feet get me:

So yeah maybe the 16 cubic square feet is a good number to shoot for.  The other thing I will need is some kind of fence to keep everything protected from...

Number of times I had to chase Spock around to get a piece of wood or Styrofoam from the bock : 3
Number of times I had to shoo Spock away from chewing on the 2 cubic feet of soil I have: 2
Number of times I had to shoo Spock out of the garden itself: 2

So yeah...before any plants go in (and who are we kidding any more dirt goes in) I'm going to need to figure out how to puppy-proof it.