Our Garden-1 month follow-up

We have a few tiny little tomatoes :)

And the basil is doing great, we seeded parsley and cilantro and it's coming up! 

Thanks goodness for all the rain, my crazy schedule right now has given me only a few chances to look out back and see what's going on. Mother Nature has done a good job of taking care of the garden so far, we haven't had to do much. I think I'll put our pole beans in this weekend :)

I talked to a very nice man yesterday and have finally found some reclaimed lumbar!!!! So, we can finish a table we started in the fall? Hopefully Greg's as excited as I am to work on our "honey-do" list this weekend :) If things get really crazy we might get some decks posts in to set-up good while we are gone next week? That's getting really crazy though.........we'll see!?

big city farmer

That's me, big city farmer wannabe!.....Greg helped me fashion this awesome raised bed on the cheap!   (well honestly he made them, Em and I just supervised) We lined the bottom with weed blocking fabric because we had some on hand, I wouldn't have gone out an bought any I think I would have used newspaper, matter of fact when we get grass in the front yard and re-mulch I think I'll put newspaper underneath for weed blocking? Anyway......we had a bucket of dirt from where Greg had to dig up our old deck, threw that in the bed and that's how it rested for almost 3 weeks!!!!

of course Em had a great time playing with the clumps of dirt

funny side note: when we go out Em sits in the bed and says farming? and then E, I, E, I, O :) he's learning so much so fast it's incredible!

I know! The hardware store up the street missed a delivery and had no topsoil and then we had a crisis of sorts at work....long story short we got our dirt and free time delivered and now..........

I mixed this composted cow manure with top soil for nutrients we'll see how it goes? (don't worry it didn't smell like manure :) 

Dirty drawers

Dirty mouth?......clean it up! there is no point telling a 20 months old not to put dirt in his mouth, if you tell him "no" he's just going to do it even more! :)

can I just tell you? I love this little boy! I also love instagram, it's so forgiving!

as of April 15

We planted 2 tomato plants, 1 pepper plant, 1 basil plant and 10 strawberry plants (the berries won't fruit until next year, we'll be patiently waiting!)
We directly sowed cucumber, cilantro, parsley, pole bean seeds and some flowers for cutting :)

I know it doesn't look like much now, but you've got to start somewhere? We'll keep you posted on our veggie progress

a beautiful day for yardwork and golf

Emerson and I got to enjoy the nice weather yesterday with a trip to Lowe's, the park, a nap, lunch and some yardwork and a little golf :)

We have a small strip of dirt that runs between our driveway and house, it doesn't get much sunlight and only had a few things living in it, WEEDS and one azalea.

We left the azalea, tore out the weeds and planted some ground cover, hopefully it will do really well and fill in nicely by next year :)

the bright green is moneywort and the dark green is mondo grass

Emerson helping me plant this awesome swirly grass, that had been catching my eye, everytime I entered Lowe's so this time we got it, I figured now we had a spot for it now beacuse one of my daylilies didn't come back this year?

picture looking up under our huge maple tree out front :)

tee it up!

On a side note: Greg played in a ProAm golf tournament about a week ago, where he was tied for 1st place, he had his playoff match last night and WON!!!! GO GREG!!!