Welcome to the Pleasant Street Garden :O)

For over 10 years now I have been torn between what to do with our small plot in front of 120 Pleasant Street in Brookline Massachusetts.  Just to tell you a little history about this yard, my aunt used it as a Chinese vegetable garden over 20 years ago.  Since she moved the yard has not been maintained.  Over grown weeds and bushes made it an eye sore.  I was not proud of our yard.  I decided to cut the bushes in half so people can see the ugly yard.  The bushes grown in nicely and only two of my Alberta Spruces survived.  An Oak tree began to grow back into the middle where it once was.  I wanted to keep this for shading for the building.

For a couple of years I have been asking my tenants if they wanted to help with the garden.  Meredith kindly approached me to see if I would let her plant something in the front.  I said to her absolutely, and we had an initial meeting about what to do.  We both agreed we wanted to grow our own vegetables and be less reliant on high priced stores.  We wanted to control the pesticides and the materials we used.  

So we decided to split up the yard where the Oak is beginning to grow and the Alberta Spruce still resides.  I was responsible to building the fences and landscape timber.  It was fairly easy because my sister had purchased things and left them in my basement.  We began to collect old desks, pots, wire, and rods from the basement.  

I made a run to Home Depot where I purchased 30 dollars worth of seeds and grabbed 6 big bags of organic soil.  I purchased 5 4x4x10 landscape timber and had landscape fabric I found in the basement.  The chicken wire was made out of plastic to block our the raccoons, skunks, squirrels, and rabbits.  We purchase a tested for the soil and found we needed to increase the PH level, so I added some lime to the soil.  We decided to use raised beds with new soil to be safe.  I need to test the soil again to check the PH levels.  I use to manage a pool and PH was so important to balance the Chlorine levels.

As you can see my son is helping dig holes with the hole digger for our door.  I used one 25 foot roll and where it stopped I decided to put a landscape timber for the first post.  I think we spent close to 300 dolalrs for this vegetable garden.  I hope it pays off with a bountiful crop in 90 -200 days :O)