What I Did on Spring Break

We had a great Relief Society thingy awhile back on gardening. Jeannie Bradley is an inspiration in many ways, one of which is her amazing raised garden beds. Nelson and I walked away motivated to make our own garden. Over Spring Break I made 9 raised vegetable beds.
My car made many trips back and forth to carry the wood and the garden soil. The frames were easy to put together, and can be made in any size. These are 10 X 4.

Joey, Josh and friends helped lug the lumber and bags of soil to the backyard.
Becky helped shovel and mix our dirt with good dirt.
Christie was amazing at digging holes and mixing just the right concoction for our fruit trees. (She came home for the weekend.)

By the way, our yard is more riverbed than yard. We filled the entire side of the walkway with rocks plucked out. Christie dug out these two beauts when we were digging a tree hole. They are as big as basketballs. Both of these were in one hole!
Now we have a huge garden and things are starting to sprout.

We planted tomatoes, strawberries, acorn, butternut, crookneck and zucchini squash, tomatoes, strawberries, onions, garlic, peas, beans, tomatoes, strawberries, green peppers, 6 kinds of chili peppers! We also have an artichoke and celery plants that survived the winter and look better than they did last year! Did I mention the tomatoes and strawberries? We'll have lots of 'em in a few months.
We went a little wild on trees... 11 all together. Cherry, nectarine, peach, plum, a couple apple and four pear trees. Nelson likes pears.
I wanted to take a picture of the whole garden, but I couldn't fit it into the frame. It is more practical than lush, but we like it! We should be able to feed a few families soon:)