Now that we are well into summer, I have gained more knowledge about the new garden.

First of all, certain areas of the garden do not get any sunlight until 10 a.m. in the morning, so I should plant cool season veggies in that area.

Secondly, the soil is pretty sandy so nutrients would drain more easily after watering or rainfall.  To rectify this I need to add more compost and organic fertilizer.

Thirdly, there are a lot of ants on my property.  I need to use diatomaceous earth and “borex+sugar” combo to control their population.

Because of a new construction, a large pile of soil was dumped at the back and my children have been diligently helping me in building new garden beds.  Now I am 45 years old, I honestly cannot do too much shovelings any more.  Thank you so much kids!

	Each bed is about 4 ft wide and 20 ft long, with a 20 inch path in between.  My children did a really good job in forming the soil.
	As you can see, the garden is surrounded by tall trees, but certain area can still get 6-8 hours of sunlight.
	I am covering the path with woodchips and the new beds with sheep/straw manure.
	My son planted 3 new blueberry plants
	I asked my daughter to build a water barrel stand close to the garden so that we don’t have to walk all the way back to the house to get water.
	The tomato plants are doing well.  This year I tried the string trellis method.
	This is sweet mama squash starting to spread everywhere.