Green Thumb Fun

I have really learned to enjoy gardening and yard work. I go in spurts where I love it for long periods of time and then I get burned out. But at least the bulk of it needs to happen just every spring and then its just maintenance from then on. This year we planted zucchini, 4 different tomato plants, peppers, green beans, pumpkins and strawberries. Unfortunately, I didn't realize soon enough that the birds were eating all of our strawberries. Next year, we'll build a net and I'm sure we'll get a lot. Two of our pumpkin plants didn't do too well, but the 3rd one makes up for it. There are already some giant yellow pumpkins growing! We're excited for those to carve!

I had so much fun turning the side of our house into something beautiful. A lot of the yards' landscaping was already completed before we moved in which made it so nice not to have to do much. But the north side of our house was just a huge dirt planter with a couple trees on the sides. I planned out in my head what I wanted to do and took all three girls to the nursery with me. Nora was a good little helper, but what helped most of all was the new swing we bought just for her. It was such a life saver. She doesn't care much for it now but the $30 was worth her being in that thing for hours and hours for two weeks long while I landscaped and got our yard and garden all ready.

This was a before picture:

I don't have a fully completed picture but this was about half way through. Now the plants are getting bigger and it looks great.