Our Garden

Here you can see the orchard,

the smaller melon/berry garden (L shaped) and

closest, part of the big garden

The rest of the big garden

The last part of the big garden,

our chicken coop, barn, and back of the house

Dad ducking for the sprinkler :)

Green things growing!!!

We planted a garden this Spring. Not just a little, bitty garden either. A BIG garden! I'm so thankful for my parents and their gardening experience. There's no way we would have pulled any of this off without them. The main garden is quite large and we've planted corn, peas (2 varieties), beans, onions, scallions, radishes, carrots, lettuce (2 varieties), peppers, and tomatoes. There might be more, but I can't remember :) In the second garden, we have lots of strawberries! We've already gotten to taste them and they are SO good - definitely make the store bought taste like nothing! The third section of garden has melons, pumpkins, potatoes, and cucumbers. I can't remember if mom was able to fit the zucchini and squash. :) We also have 8 fruit trees planted - apples and peaches. We planted blueberry bushes (two of the four look very sad and I'm not sure if they will make it!) And for beauty, we've planted a pink dogwood tree in the front yard and two lilac bushes out back. We are hoping to do lots and lots of freezing and canning to help supplement during the coming winter. :)

The gate has to stay latched to keep Rocky from digging monster holes in the garden :)

The kids enjoy climbing over it!

Dad and Mom working

Great Grandma came for a month long visit.

She got to enjoy the sunshine and watch the grandkids play.

We loved having her here.

Livy labeling the row markers.

Can you tell who was hard at "work" here?

Dad did a lot of rototilling and

working on the rototiller this Spring!

The girls found quite a bit of broken pottery and bits in the garden -

rather like their own archeology dig!

They had fun examining the pieces and

trying to figure out where they came from.

Daniel works hard emptying our buckets

as we fill them with weeds!

Mom weeding with the girls

lovely Livia

Dad mowing the perimeter so Abby could mow the inside :)

Daniel trying to feed a worm to the chickens

Abby - working hard weeding

working together

Dad talking with Daniel over the gate

Mom and Liv working together

some rows of greenery coming up! sans weeds!