Tilling Time

My favorite days of the year are when we can finally start working in the garden for the year.  This year is a little different with a 20 lb. bowling ball baby in my belly.  Using the hoe, hauling peat and manure, or just shoveling involves a lot of noises and grunts.  Thankfully Paul doesn't mind helping...depending on your husband to do your dirty work is a new situation for me...He's realizing just how much I like to garden...I  had to confess early in the season..."honey there were a lot of bags of peat and manure you didn't know about last year."  Some couples keep secrets of infedelities or affairs...probably a good thing I exposed my gardening habit early on in the marriage before it buries us in debt!

Planting Asparagus

To plant asparagus you need to dig trenches 6 inches deep, lay the crowns(asparagus roots) and cover with three inches of soil. It works good with tow people...It was a great way to strengthen pregnancy squats. I would lay down the crown and Paul would cover them with soil. He was could shovel much quicker than I scoot down the trenches but it worked out. When planting asparagus you can't pick it for three years. So plant it in a spot that you won't want to till up and be patient!

Peas Please Grow!

Planting round two of peas...hopefully in about two months we will be eating fresh peas, freezing for baby food and stir fry mixes....we'll see?

Couples Composting

Couples Composting is a term coined by my brother Joe. Paul turns the leaves, I water the pile...Hopefully next year we will have some quality compost to add to the garden. It's cool to see it steaming and working... This year we will be buying bags of peat and manure again or filling up drywall buckets of topsoil, putting them on the boat, and dumping them in the garden. Lots of work but worth it to have our own fresh food.

Belly Cast

Dr. said this little baby is going to hatch soon so I better get this big belly cast before it's gone.  I am thankful that Paul can maneuver the plaster all around these lovely lady lumps!

Vermicomposting at School

This is one of my favorite lessons every year.  Vermicomposting. The kids love to learn it and I love to teach it...Check it out.

Tilling Time!

It has always been my favorite day of the year when it is finally time to get out in the garden.  Paul is tilling up our gardens...we should have done it in the fall but maybe this year we'll be on track.  I'm running around somewhere, pulling this and that...dreaming about this garden season.....