I love to garden. I'm pretty sure that "must-be-in-the-garden-as-soon-as-spring-approaches" urge just keeps getting worse as I get older. I would be content with weeding, mowing the lawn, and planting veggies all day long. Our backyard is incredibly swampy, filled with clay soil, and chickens. You put those three things together and you have a disaster. If you are actually able to grow anything in swampy, clay-like soil, the chickens will surely dig it up during one of their dirt baths or eat it.
So enter some raised beds. Our friend was so kind to give these to us and we immediately put them to good use. They sit in the front yard, where the chickens won't find them and it's dry enough that they won't actually sink anytime soon! We filled them with organic loam, peat moss, and (the little one's favorite thing) alpaca poo. We spent all day yesterday planting, shoveling, and taking breaks for popsicles. We planted rainbow chard, kale, spinach, lettuce, basil, tomatoes, summer squash, zucchini, delicata, cucumbers, blueberries, elderberry, alpine strawberries, and snap peas. We also made some signs for all the seeds we planted (the little one had a lot of fun with this!). We all fell asleep talking about being able to get dinner from our very own yard soon. It doesn't get any better than that!
And, oh...how talented the little one is. She came running in while Sasa and I were making lunch yesterday to show us these pictures. The one on the left is "Mama as a bird wearing fairy wings." The two people on the right are "Sasa, who is my little brother in this picture (because I really want a little brother) and I am on the right. I am bigger than Sasa because he is my little brother. We both have very styled hair." Sasa got a kick out of that! Oh, and they are wearing fairy wings too. I love the little toes on each of us and the faces are so amazing!
And lastly, I love BBQs. Sasa grilled these marinated shish kabobs and they were delicious! We're settling in for a relaxing evening after some more gardening work.
I had an engagement shoot today at a super fun location! I will have previews up on my photo blog soon, so stay tuned! Hope you are enjoying your weekend.
