Jordan and Megan's garden

Garden. Ive never done one before, I have tried to grow things in pots, which then die :(

So this is a first for me. I cant deny that Im quite excited about it. Jordan and I meet up this afternoon, and after about an hour of walking around the yard, looking at different areas, we decided on this lovely garden's location.
The next step was a trip to Lowes for the supplies.

Lowes is always an interesting experience, this time we found everything that was needed and were on our way in no time.

By the time we got started it was like 6:30 and we had some digging to do.

We used the lumber to determine were we needed to dig up that top layer of grass, during the digging process there were a couple of moments were I couldnt help but yell out my disgust with the amount of rocks in the ground. One side of the digging wasnt to bad, and so naturally you think more will get done, well, we started on the second half of it and it had more rocks and ended up taking a while.

But we finally finished enough to start placing the timbers.

This step also resulted in me yelling about how much I hate hammering. See those jumbo spike things? we hammered them into the timbers and then into the ground. (were hoping they stay) but man that took some force.

After we did 8 of those big ones, we had some smaller ones to place a second timber on top of the first. Well, we started the first one and decided that some screws would be a better route, so this meant a return trip to Lowes, and a much needed diner break. (pizza yum!)

This is the picture of what it looks like so far, I laid the weed stopping plastic down to help discourage weeds (yes!) and Jordan's drill didn't have enough battery to power the screws through the wood. It was dark and cold so we called it a night.

Tomorrow the drill should be charged, and so should we. We will probably go ahead and plant once we get all the nice new top soil (and manure!) in the nice square we've built.