I think I just really like to hear myself talk.

At the start of last year, it seemed like a pretty drastic measure to lose the use of your garden for a few years just to avoid pulling a few weeds, but by Spring of this year, we knew that was what we had to do..So about a month ago, we covered half of our garden with black plastic, leaving us just half of it to play with this year.

It’s honestly still too big for any reasonable human beings to actually fill and keep up with, so we’re just fine with it for now.. Getting the plastic was easy.Chris picked up a roll at the hardware store for about $50 and it’s big enough to last us until the end of time.Actually putting the plastic down in a way that will last and not allow any light in for the long haul was a little more challenging than it looks.

We had to lay down the plastic and carefully dig a trench about 4 inches deep all around the edges, then bury the edges of the plastic.Somehow, wind was still getting underneath, so we used a combination of some patches of dirt on top and some rounded bricks (to prevent tearing) to hold it down.

So far it seems to have done the trick!.

So why does it need to stay down for several years?10.Chicken and Veggie Kabobs.

Don’t these look amazing?These can be made and frozen ahead of time too!.

Image is from Echoes of Laughter.Link is directly to her post about camp food.