Gardening!

We have had an extremely busy week this week so I didn't get this posted until now. Nicolle and I have reached a new age in our lives.....we are officially Minivan old.....we have been busy all week minivan shopping and finally picked one out, and get to go pick it up tonight. So I apologize for the late post!

Last Saturday (April 11th) Isla and I decided that it was time to start pulling the straw off the strawberry patch! After doing so I think this will be the last time I use straw to cover my strawberries for the winter. Straw still has seeds, which have started to germinate in my strawberry patch. I hope that when I raked it all off that I have removed all the seeds that have germinated and that will be the end of it, but we will see.

 

When I pulled off the straw I couldn't believe how many strawberry plants were already coming up even with the straw on top!!!

 

 



Then after pulling the straw I decided that it was such a nice day that I might as well not stop there, so I measured off my garden rows, got the tiller out, turned some dirt and planted my green beans and peas that evening! (I used my handy dandy app also that I talked about in a previous post!)

 

I may have had a little helper with laying it all out!

 

On Sunday (April 12th) my Dad came down, and we went and bought a hog panel. I took the hog panel and staked one end down in the garden then staked the other end to the ground with the middle up off the ground like a dome. Then I planted cucumber seeds on each end of the hog panel. My hope is that the cucumber plants will vine up the hog panel and then I can walk under it to pick my cucumbers! Now time to wait and see how long it takes for these bad boys to germinate!