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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Planting Day!!

The rest of the garden went in today!! Here's how it went down....



Our day started early, but with a beautiful sunrise. Here it is, over the water, about 6:00 am.

We try to do as much as we can together as a family. The past few years, with Gavin so young, it was a challenge to accomplish SOME tasks together (like gardening and yard work, for example) but this year, Gavin was so excited to lend a hand and was such a great help. Ivy mostly hung with Mama and came out to supervise every now and again:



Gavin and Grampa drilling some drainage holes in a container



Daddy and Gavin screening some soil for use in our gardening containers. We use a 50/50 mix of peat moss and soil (made from composted leaves/grass etc. that is offered free from our town's public works). It's great stuff, but kind of twiggy and rocky. A pass through the screen makes it as soft as cocoa powder.



Ivy making sure no one is slacking on the job.



The assembly line. We use containers for our tomatoes and peppers. It's a great way to go, especially if you have small kids. There's pretty much no weeding. It's super easy for kids (even young ones) to help water the pots, and (as you'll see in the next photo) you can make a nice wide aisle to make it a breeze for the little ones to help harvest (and not step on any plants in the process :^)



the completed container area. Still gotta get some cages up and stakes ready



Squash on the ridge with blueberries at the bottom. Herb boxes on the deck railing



View up the yard from one of the main gardens. We use felled tree branches around newly planted stuff to keep the geese out. The bushy greens in front of the screen is a catnip patch, aka "the feline opium den"



red raspberries bookended by hostas in the foreground. Thornless vining blackberries up the arbor.



We're pulling a quart a day of these babies!!



This is the first year that our peach trees are giving up the goods. Can't wait to try them!!

Here's the final role call(including perennial stuff):
Veggies:
Tomatoes (5 varieties)
Peppers (3 varieties)
Summer, Zucchini, and Butternut Squash
Broccoli
Peas
Spinach
Asparagus
Lettuce
Carrots
Cucumbers (2 varieties)
Pumpkins

Fruit:
Strawberries
Red Raspberries
Blackberries
Apples (3 varieties)
Peaches :^)
Blueberries

Herbs:
Basil
Rosemary
Sage
Lavender
Chives
Horseradish
Catnip
Mint (growing wild somewhere way out back)

We thanks the Lord for what He has made and look forward to the harvest!!

One final note:
Proverbs 12:11a reads "He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread..."
Chrissy made up a DELICIOUS homemade crusty bread which we enjoyed fresh out of the oven with dinner. We used some fresh basil and rosemary (along with garlic, CRP, salt, and pepper) mixed with EVOO to make a dipping oil to go with it. We are all certainly satisfied with bread this evening. I think we've just coined a new Leo Family tradition today: Homemade bread and dipping oil on planting day! Praise the Lord!!

1 comment:

  1. This all sounds yummy. I have a really good butternut squash, red onion recipe if you want it. Maybe a Dolan road trip when the harvest is fresh for picking?

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