Jeremy and I have been together almost 6 1/2 years now, and every spring we promise each other we will commit to starting a garden. He’s a farmer. I love to cook. A garden should totally be part of our lives, right? But somehow life always seems to get in the way, and I’m lucky if I even get a few flowers planted in the weed-filled flower pots on my front porch before August arrives, let alone tend to a big, bountiful garden.
BUT this year Jeremy starting farming full-time, which means he has a good amount of free time in the off season. This spring, as soon as the fields were planted and the tractors parked back in the shed, I heard Jeremy outside tilling up a giant patch of our yard for a garden… gulp. Guess we really are doing it this year!
With the help of my mom, Jeremy and I planted a pretty large garden for beginners… lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, carrots, green beans, sweet peppers, tomatoes, and sweet corn. I think he figured if we planted a million things, surely we’d have something to harvest! Fingers crossed. 🙂
So since we now have this massive garden in our yard, I decided I better make some garden marker signs so we can keep all our million plants straight. I came up with this fun design, with a paint-splattered white background and gorgeously chic gold letters. I figure even if we have a very sad looking garden, I’ll at least have the prettiest garden markers on the block! Wait, scratch that… we’re the only house on our block…. We’ll have the prettiest garden markers in the whole county!
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These garden marker signs were really simple to make and can be used again year after year. Come on over to I Heart Nap Time and check out the full tutorial!
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These signs are seriously so cute! Need to make these next spring, right now I have the little explanation signs that the stores put in the plant containers when you buy them… sooooo not cute!
Haha, maybe not cute, but definitely informative! Lol!
You sure do have prettiest markers in the county. Good luck to you on your wonderful garden. Hope it’s lot better than ours lol. My poor hubs has tried so hard to get a garden going but it just doesn’t seem to happen. He’s abridged the dirt, it still doesn’t happen. He was raised on farm in OK so his pride is pretty wounded. We live in western CO and the dirt is so much alkali it’s hard to get anything to grow. Mostly anything we have is in a container that grows, including the hens/chicks. Would be nice to at least have some tomatoes for salads. Not even they grow. In the spot where he planted his garden we put the chicken coop and chickens. It’ s a small area on side of yard with fencing around it so was perfect for chickens. Daughter’s neighbor gave to us as they’re moving and daughter already has 3 chickens. We live out in country, have 1/2 acre which is plenty for old folks like us.
Keep us all apprised of how your garden grows. Happy summer, enjoy your wonderful boys.
I think my husband was worried for a little bit that we wouldn’t be able to get anything to grow in our garden this year either! The soil is so different here in Indiana from where we grew up in Illinois. It’s very clay-like. Hopefully we get a few things to come up! Sounds like you’ve found a great solution with the chickens!
These markers are adorable! I would love to have a garden if we ever have a house of our own. Apartment life doesn’t make gardens possible sadly 🙁
Hopefully someday soon you can start a garden! Apartment life does kind of put a damper on that. Hopefully we’ll have more than enough to harvest this year, and I’m happy to share! 😉
Super cute Liz!!! I’m featuring them tomorrow in my Friday Features… thanks for linking up to Inspire Me Monday!
Thank you so much, Maryann! I’m flattered! Have a wonderful weekend. 🙂