Preparing For Our Garden

Saturday, our family went out to a couple of stores to buy seeds for our cool weather garden.  We are starting earlier with our planning this year.  We bought a couple of seed starting trays and I planted seeds for lettuce, Brussels sprouts, parsley, oregano, and dill.  We'll nurture these seeds inside for awhile and hopefully transplant them in the coming months.  We bought several other seeds that we will just plant in the ground when the appropriate time comes.  Those vegetables actually do better when planted directly into the ground; such as spinach, swiss chard, turnips and many others. 

I am so excited this year about gardening.  Maybe because I don't have a baby and I feel like I can give myself more to it.  Maybe it is that the Kruidenier family continues to inspire me daily.  My thumb isn't very green, but I hope to read up, work hard, and learn from experience.  Growing our own food is such a sweet thing and so meaningful.  

We all got our hands dirty on Sunday as we turned over the soil in our garden area.  The kids got right in there with us.  Of course, when they started finding worms, their mission changed.  After hoeing up much of the garden, I sat up on the back deck and planted our seeds.  All the while, Scott was continuing to weed and turn the soil over with his pitch fork.  I love being outside with my family in our backyard.  

If you were wondering, our horse poop is still sitting right where it was plopped.  It has a few more weeks to sit there before we can till it in.