Wow, this has been a marathon blogging day, but this is great closure to a really busy and fun spring our family has enjoyed. So, our main focus since March has really been rebuilding our dilapidated greenhouse and preparing the soil for our 2 big gardens. Aiden and I designed both gardens on graph paper and he really enjoyed coming up with symbols for the different veggies and making the key and compass rose. We purchased a used rotatiller which made digging up the soil much easier for me this year. Of course, we tilled a much larger area this year which has meant more work in the weeding/planting/watering department, but we don't mind. We built a fence to keep the chickens out of the big garden as they devoured our corn and tomatoes last year. We started the seeds in the greenhouse and just finished planting the last of the seedlings 2 days ago. Now we wait and water and weed and let God do the rest. Our iris garden (grandpa's irises) is blooming beautifully right now. The gophers love to eat those stalks just as they bloom out though so I am at war with them lately. Aiden and Liam have been helping me out in the yard, but they mostly enjoy the watering part and playing in the mud!
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