Garden Time!

I am so excited to plant my garden this year! I have skipped planting for a few years, because the garden had become overgrown with trees. It was a jungle. So I had enough and Matt and the kids and I took to lopping all the trees off at the ground level. Once that was done, I mowed over it and sprayed it with Round Up. Then my neighbor graciously came and tilled it up. There were many large-ish trunks to remove, which had to be dug around and then axed below the ground. Needless to say, it was a lot of hard work. My neighbor, Terry, tilled it again, and we cleaned up the few tree trunks we had missed. I bought some fertilizer and he tilled that in and made the rows!! Ta- da!!! Gorgeous garden!!! So now I am waiting for the seeds to come. Meanwhile the aggravating seeds are falling all over the garden- the very ones that grew in to trees. So I am hoping to get things planted this weekend!! I will grow corn, tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, green beans, peas, carrots, lettuce, garlic, watermelon, cukes and onions. I will grow some herbs, too. But I need to see how much room I have left!! Here are some pics of the progress so far.

Spring is Sproinging!

Today I finally got the lawn mower going- it would start but not stay running- I finally figured out why. It had no oil in it!! oops. So I mowed both lawns, and mowed over the garden really well. My neighbor has offered to till it up for me, for which I am eternally grateful. It was going to cost $50 to rent one from Home Depot, and I can't afford that right now. But, I really, really wanted to get the garden going this year. So much so that I have been dreaming about the things growing in it. For some reason, most of the dreams had Martha Stewart in them, like the one where I grew unusual tomatoes that smelled and tasted like peaches! Don't know what I ate for dinner that night :)

It was has been so warm and pretty here. Everything is blooming, and getting green and growing leaves. So I have the yard mowed, and pretty much done, for hiding Easter eggs in on Sunday.

We went to Reynolda House today, which I have been wanting to do since we moved here. It was pretty neat, kind of like a mini Biltmore. It made me want to take the kids and Matt to Biltmore even more, seeing their interest in Reynolda House.

I am really looking forward to planting a garden this year, and will post some pics as it comes along!