Well, after 3 days of intense work, we now have everything ready to go in the garden!
There was so much to do this past weekend that I have wiped myself out and need a little bit of rest. Let me give you a list of what got accomplished this weekend.
On Friday I weeded the strawberry beds, planted cucumbers, more carrots, and sunflowers, broke up the dirt around the other house's porch so I can plant echinacea flowers when the seed gets here, broke up the dirt around the tree where the swing is so I can plant trumpet vines, and transplanted a misc plant that is growing from last year (either pumpkin or watermellon).
On Saturday I went to Restore down the street and picked up some bricks to make a border for the flower bed I am putting around the porch at the house next door, planted Gladiola bulbs in the flower bed, mostly fenced in the new garden, went to TSC and got a large brim hat for me (since I don't like sunscreen), went to Gymboree since it decided to rain the rest of the day and got Tabitha a sun hat and a few misc things for both children, since I had the Gymbucks coupon and a gift card (which didn't cost me a cent!), got the window boxes we bought filled with dirt and planted them with my winter harvest of carrots so I can put them infront of the new window in the storage room (ie. new greenhouse), worked a little in my growing room, and worked some more on the modest swimwear I am making for us.
On Sunday it was very nice (80's) outside, so we got even more done. I finished my homemade scarecrow, got the 8'x25' tomato trellis in the new garden, finished the fence, weeded the tomato bed from last year, transplanted some Borage that came up from last year, got the wood from the base of the tree next door in the fire pit, and worked some more on the swimwear.
I'm not sure that was EVERYTHING, but that is most of it. Of course I had to have time to still rest a little and nurse Grady while he napped, but otherwise, I tried to keep busy and the kids helped too. Grady got a tape measure at Home Depot the other night, so he helps every second he can when we needed something to be measured. Oterwise he goes around just measuring misc things around the house and yard.
My wonderful husband helped me with some of the big things above, but when he wasn't helping me, he was either doing some other misc things that needed done around here (dishes...), helped watch and play with the children, and made FABULOUS meals for us (as always). When Eric cooks, it usually isn't anything boring. For example; lunch on Sunday he made (from scratch) fettuccini alfredo with mushrooms and garlic bread sticks and for dinner we had hamburgers with rosemary potato and sweet potato fries in the oven.
Eric always amazes me at what he comes up with! Even in the garden, he created a metal hook out of left over fence clips, so that the tomato fence would have support at the top. The clips slipped easily into the top of the conduit and hold up the top of the poultry netting. Even for the "gate" to the garden, he took the same hooks so it could be opened and closed and attached them... somehow. I'm not sure how he did it, I just know it works! God has definitely given him a special gift!
There was so much to do this past weekend that I have wiped myself out and need a little bit of rest. Let me give you a list of what got accomplished this weekend.
On Friday I weeded the strawberry beds, planted cucumbers, more carrots, and sunflowers, broke up the dirt around the other house's porch so I can plant echinacea flowers when the seed gets here, broke up the dirt around the tree where the swing is so I can plant trumpet vines, and transplanted a misc plant that is growing from last year (either pumpkin or watermellon).
On Saturday I went to Restore down the street and picked up some bricks to make a border for the flower bed I am putting around the porch at the house next door, planted Gladiola bulbs in the flower bed, mostly fenced in the new garden, went to TSC and got a large brim hat for me (since I don't like sunscreen), went to Gymboree since it decided to rain the rest of the day and got Tabitha a sun hat and a few misc things for both children, since I had the Gymbucks coupon and a gift card (which didn't cost me a cent!), got the window boxes we bought filled with dirt and planted them with my winter harvest of carrots so I can put them infront of the new window in the storage room (ie. new greenhouse), worked a little in my growing room, and worked some more on the modest swimwear I am making for us.
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| The tomato fence |
On Sunday it was very nice (80's) outside, so we got even more done. I finished my homemade scarecrow, got the 8'x25' tomato trellis in the new garden, finished the fence, weeded the tomato bed from last year, transplanted some Borage that came up from last year, got the wood from the base of the tree next door in the fire pit, and worked some more on the swimwear.
I'm not sure that was EVERYTHING, but that is most of it. Of course I had to have time to still rest a little and nurse Grady while he napped, but otherwise, I tried to keep busy and the kids helped too. Grady got a tape measure at Home Depot the other night, so he helps every second he can when we needed something to be measured. Oterwise he goes around just measuring misc things around the house and yard.
My wonderful husband helped me with some of the big things above, but when he wasn't helping me, he was either doing some other misc things that needed done around here (dishes...), helped watch and play with the children, and made FABULOUS meals for us (as always). When Eric cooks, it usually isn't anything boring. For example; lunch on Sunday he made (from scratch) fettuccini alfredo with mushrooms and garlic bread sticks and for dinner we had hamburgers with rosemary potato and sweet potato fries in the oven.
Eric always amazes me at what he comes up with! Even in the garden, he created a metal hook out of left over fence clips, so that the tomato fence would have support at the top. The clips slipped easily into the top of the conduit and hold up the top of the poultry netting. Even for the "gate" to the garden, he took the same hooks so it could be opened and closed and attached them... somehow. I'm not sure how he did it, I just know it works! God has definitely given him a special gift!
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| Eric's homemade post clip hook. |
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| Eric's homemade gate for the garden fence. |
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