Garden Planning

It's never too early to start planning your garden. 

I've been scouring the web and talking to friends to get the best advice for my first time ever very own garden. I can't exactly start planting yet, even if there are loads of winter greens and veg that can be growing this time of year, because we still have work being done on the garden. The builder is moving dirt around which is kind of good...perhaps I won't have to turn things up so much! But I will be picking all the average and large sized rocks out! There are so many rocks where I am! It's really a good thing because we've used a lot of the found rocks for our garden walkways and to hold the earth back.

Here are a few things I've picked up so far:

Clematis is a plant I know well so I thought I would get a few different kinds. Then I saw these Passiflora plants that grow like ivy but have these super exotic looking flowers. I'm excited to see how they come out. 

This is the new Pizza Oven and BBQ that the builder made for us. I'm super happy that we can make really good gluten free pizzas whenever we want. Like this one...

A few days ago we had a Pizza Party with friends to use the new oven and just two days later the yard and my vespa look like this:

What?! I'm having flashbacks of my first 20 years of life! -minus the vespa of course.

So I just want to share a couple of sites that I have been finding useful in my garden planning. First is this info on planting by the moon: http://www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com/moon-planting.html

Then there is the companion planting site which lists what plants go good together for nutrient reasons and even for attracting good bugs who eat the bad bugs that like to eat your veggies :

http://www.countryfarm-lifestyles.com/companion-planting.html

Then this site which is just loaded with info...and a friend of a friend writes for it ( : http://www.motherearthnews.com/blogs/blog.aspx?blogid=2147484855