The Garden June 11, 2008

Here they are…the first fruits of our little garden! Two little jelly bean tomatoes.. They weren’t there yesterday. Makes me happy just seeing these little plants grow…and now I’ve got something to show for the time and energy put into nurturing these plants. Yippee!

Weekend Warrior (progress report inside!) April 25, 2008

This weekend my Weekend Warrior project is to get my garden well underway. Actually, I already started today since our weekend around here is Friday & Saturday. For several years I have wanted to have a vegetable garden, but it didn’t work out for a variety of logistical reasons, so this year is the year.

I have been reading the book Square Foot Gardening, and am attempting to implement this method. My sweet honey built me three boxes, and today we filled them with “Mel’s Mix.” Tomorrow morning I am going to plant the transplants I have, and on Monday I will be putting in the seeds. I took some pictures along the way, and will take some tomorrow, too. Then I will hopefully figure out how to post them.

Happy Weekend!

Here is where I started….

Here are the boxes my sweet husband built for me.

Here’s the cute boy in his gardening duds!

We followed the directions in Square Foot Gardening to make our soil mixture. The directions were good, and it was certainly an easier process than digging into the ground for hours on end, but it still made my back sore.

Here’s our soil and grids!

I took this picture to show the soil in the long box, but it’s a little hard to see. We decided to make one long box because we have this retaining wall along the edge of our side yard that is just right for gardening, so we modified the square into a rectangle to make the plan work for us. We’ll see how it all works out.

Thanks for all the encouraging comments!

Weekend Warrior April 11, 2008

Well, it’s the weekend around here, since Phil works Sunday through Thursday. In the spirit of Weekend Warriors, I’ve got some plans around here. This is an ambitious list, so we shall see how it goes. However, the accountability of posting some plans here will help motivate me. Here is the plan:

Morning – edited at 4 pm. That pantry was a WAY bigger job than I previously realized!

• clean the kitchen
• run the dishwasher
• cook up some baby food (apples, pears, plums, butternut squash)
• tidy the pantry (this is the largest project in the kitchen)
• run Caitey’s laundry through the wash
• pull 6 m and smaller clothes out of Noah’s closet

Afternoon- Edited at 7:30 pm. I ended up emptying some boxes in the garage. Above tasks moved to tomorrow… Edited again at 9:55 Sunday night….got these done today….

• yard work-weeding, prepping for vegetable garden
• lesson planning for next week

Evening

• collapsing onto the couch!

If you have time, visit Divine Reflections. Crystal & Greg came to visit us last weekend (it was good to see you guys!) and took some pictures of us that are lovely!