Daffodils are showing their stuff...

...or at least some of them are! :) Enjoy the pictures! I cut 4 of them and put them in the faculty room this morning, might cheer up someone on this dreary day!

Spent the morning at the garden! :)

So, I went this morning and actually got dirty! :) Grandpa Besler came and rototilled the ground up and I trimmed the bushes, moved some leaves and put up some stakes.

I have decided that I am just like my mom in many ways and that is OK! :)

Our winter sowing is beginning to show some growth. We have lettuce and spinach sprouts.


Chives

Row of daffodils just ready to burst!


Of course, I had to have a pic of the cute crocus!


This will be our melon and cucumber growing "fence". Not sure if you can tell, but the bottom is an old spring form that goes in a crib. It is awesome and I would love to find another to go on the top, but the likelihood of that is slim to none; so the plan is to put up a short piece of fencing up on top. It worked great last year, we'll see.




I got Caden's corner set back up.

This is what it looks like laid out as of today. May change, not sure. To the right are the pea tripods.

They just keep springing up!!!

Northwest corner... purple and pink crocus!

Do you see the little pink ones in there?!


Southwest corner... yellow crocus!

Southeast corner... little white ones that have just a little purple in them.

Can you see the almost ready to bust open daffodils???

Happy Spring!

WOW!!!!

We have flowers, ladies and gentlemen!!! I am so excited! Looks like some snow might be coming by the end of the week. Not sure if I need to do anything to protect them...

3.18.2011

I sure do get excited to see signs of spring! I went out yesterday to check out the winter sowing progress (which hasn't happened yet) and almost stepped on the tulips shoots! Then I glanced over and saw these sweet little crocus! Love, Love, Love how God makes everything new!

02.21.11

My goodness it has been a long time since I last posted... Not much going on out there with the exception of our compost bin is composing and the settling of the leaves we put over the top of the entire area. I can't wait to see little green sprouts coming from the ground in several weeks, when our bulbs begin to come up.

The 7th and 8th graders winter sowed a ton of seeds today. They planted peas, beans, 2 different kinds of lettuce, cantaloupe, spinach, squash, and carrots. I hope that we see some of those come up, too. Thanks to Polly Reott for helping us with the donation of the seeds to get us started. Thanks to Jay Rotter for the dirt he and his family donated. Finally, thanks to Mr. Dave and his group for rinsing and saving all their juice containers for us to use.

This spring I plan to have a Saturday where we get out there, clean up the place and get some new beds established. It is always good to change things up each year so we will be creating some new beds. I am looking for donations for wood chips and time, when the time comes. Please let me know if you would be available.

Thanks much and happy growing!!! :)

10.30.10

Can't believe it has been over a month since my last update. This will probably be the last one for a while as winter isn't too far off. Below enjoy my little "punny" jokes. :)

And the "BEET" goes on...

"LEAF" it to all the trees to cover us up!

"COM-POST" your thoughts here...

Got nothing for this, but it is what would have been broccoli if it had started growing earlier in the season...

We learned a lot over the last year of this garden. Around late January we will be staring the "winter sowing" process that was so successful this past spring. I will be setting up a date next spring where I will ask for as many families as possible to come and help clean up the garden and get it ready for the next growing season. Let me know if you and your family would be interested in giving up a Saturday in spring.

Many blessings and thanks for all the thoughts, prayers and support this past year! :)