We are proud to introduce the newest addition to Hatcher Park – a garden!!! The idea was to start off slow, but if anyone knows Scotty they know that he is not the patient type and when he starts a project he goes big the first time around!! 😉 We started our garden three weeks ago with corn, squash, bell peppers, cucumbers, shallots, and parsley – hardly “slow” I might add! We started with a 3 by 5 square and planted EVERYTHING. Things quickly got a little tight.. Whoops! In the past three weeks we have had to thin some of our crops because they grew up and grew up fast! In the weeks since we started, we have added pumpkins, watermelon, cantelope, strawberries, blueberries, onions, and carrots! Scotty has spent most of his weekends outside making the dirt perfect, digging holes, planting, transplanting, and whatever else you have to do to get a garden growing!! He has done an amazing job!! He even downloaded an app that will help us monitor when the crops will harvest (of course there’s an app for that!). We definitely did a few things wrong, but it has been a fun learning process so far!! Scotty has quite the green thumb and he is righting our wrongs as we go! Here’s hoping we get some good food in the next few months!!!!
The first days of our garden:
The second week of our garden:
Our garden helpers:
We’ll update everyone on the garden as things start to sprout!!!