Going Green!

Ricky and I have been busy around the house. Since we moved here we have been wanting to plan a garden so badly and now we finally have the room to do it. We decided the best option for us would be to make a box/grid garden. We got recycled wooden palates that Ricky stapled weed liner around. Then it was off to buy some plants and soil. We filled the garden with soil and planted our little baby plants and seeds. In our garden we have tomatoes, squash, zucchini, red yellow and green pepper, 3 different types of lettuce, spinach, cucumber, basil, cilantro, thyme, and parsley. Our garden has really taken off for the most part. 2 of our lettuce didnt come in that well so we are going to replant those. Otherwise everything else is looking great! 

This is how it started before the plants 

With some plants 

This is our garden now!

To go along with our garden we really wanted to start composting but didnt really know too much about it. Over Earth Day there was a festival in the park that had some going green workshops and one of the workshops was about composting. We got a lot of valuable information and decided we would give it a try. Composting is great because it reduces the amount of trash you throw away and it makes great soil for your garden! We got an old plastic barrel and Ricky drilled holes in it. We threw in some soil and our browns(dry leaves, sticks, dry grass etc) and greens(grass, leaves leftover veggies from the kitchen etc) with a little water and mixed it up. We hope to have 2 compost up an running so that way we have somewhere to put our waste while the other is decomposing but we as of now we only have one up and running. This is what it looks like. We are also going to paint it to make it a little more eye catching.

Its the black tub on cinder blocks with wood over it to keep the heat in. 

While we were at the Earth Day festival we saw something really cool. It was a big flower pot made out of a tire. We thought that was a great way to use something that most people throw away so we thought we would give it a try. Ricky did all of this with a little help from our friend Dustin. First he got a tire with the rim on (you dont need the rim if you dont want but we like the look). Then he cut into the tire and and made decorative petals. Once he cut it Ricky and Dustin flipped it inside out. This was really hard to do and it took them awhile and it took some work but it turned out great! We are going to paint this too and I like it so much I want Ricky to make me another one! :)