April Dreams to Reality

I am a planner. I take my wishes and dreams and put them on paper. I consider what I want, what I need, how I will do it, and when I can do it! I love to plan. It may take me a while to go back and forth on what I want, but once I am solid in my plans, it is done without regrets!

For years I have wished for and dreamed of owning enough property in a location I could have a garden, cows, and chickens! I wanted a huge garden, and since I love to can (and have since I was in my teens) I was ready. After decades of working a garden where ever I lived, I finally got a piece of land with a home! It's a small homestead, but it is MY homestead. It is relatively flat, and I can ride a riding mower over 95% of the land.

When I decided to put my city house on the market, I went back to my old planning ways... I had plans for it I got land with no house, a land with house, land with woods house/no house, and you can get it. I figured out what I needed or wanted. I planned how I was going to make my property my own.

I put my house on the market, got an offer, made an offer on this property and as you can guess... here I am. I have my little homestead. It is far enough out I am not regulated by "corporated" places, and I am a good 10 minutes away from a cell phone tower. I am thankful for satellite WiFi!

Now I am here. I made the big transition, and I am slowly unpacking. My dream garden is still a dream because I am really not set up yet for the full size garden I want. Typically in my city home, I had seeds going in February and I was ready to put plants in the ground after frost dates suggested. This year I am way behind. I was moving the week seeds should have started, and then with the mess of two moving companies... I am STILL unpacking, discovering, and locating. I have not located my seed heat mats, or lights, or the structure I kept it all on... so Plan B.

Plan B is, instead of my big 30' by 90' garden of loads of veggies, I am scaling my plans back to roughly a 30' by 30' garden. Money plays a huge factor as I am not willing to pay for enough flats of tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, cabbage, etc. Therefore, one flat each, and I have plenty of bean seeds, and corn. This will eliminate the worry for my February and March failure to have seedlings, but allow me to still garden. It also reduces the amount of fence I need RIGHT NOW to fence the perimeter of the garden to keep the dogs, chickens, and pigs out!

So my April dreams were to start my huge garden after "Mother's Day" which is our rough estimate of the last frost concern, and have a smaller garden with what I am willing to invest. Having said that, 2025 will be the fruition of my dream to reality as the garden will greatly expand in 2025! In the meantime, I will be spending the first weeks of May getting my berry bushes going!

Happy planting!