Welcome!

Welcome to Uncle Mark's Garden!  It is our goal to have you join us in our gardening adventures this year.  Mark has been asking me for sometime to chronicle his gardening year.  Grab a fresh cup of coffee and some gardening dreams and join us.

Gardening is a year-round process at our home.  When the weather is too cold, wet and dark to be outdoors working the beds, Mark is indoors perusing catalogs, developing his planning calendar, ordering seeds, and dreaming big.  We have 3.5 acres to play with but a lot of that land is wooded and had not been tended much before we moved in.  Our first year here was spent clearing more area and doing what we could with a very cold, very wet winter followed by a very hot, very dry summer.

 This is the side yard last year.

This is the side yard (also known as the potato patch) this year.  What a difference a bow saw makes, right?


Mark was able to use a lot of the wood cleared to make different things.  I am hoping that over the next year he will do more with the furniture; I like his rustic furniture!

I'm thinking that most of the time we will be a little heavy on the pictures.  Enjoy, and check back often.  One of us will be posting at least once each week.