Inch By Inch, Row By Row

Our garden has been planted! As soon as they lifted the water ban (which was in place for almost two years) we decided that it was time to head to Russell's to purchase our seedlings for this year's garden. We planted a little over a week ago, and though it has been chilly and rainy the plants seem to be happy in their new homes. This year we will be growing: lettuce, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, pumpkins, potatoes, peas, carrots and sunflowers (the last three being planted from seeds). xo

Our Garden

This past Saturday was absolutely gorgeous and completely perfect for planting our garden. With rain forcast for Sunday we knew that we had to get the seedlings and seeds in the ground then so that they'd be able to take root and really make our garden beds their home for the season. 

Emma planted the tomato plants. 

And Grace was all about the peppers. 

While Grace was finishing up planting the peppers, Emma got to work on the lettuce. 

It was decided that we'd attempt carrots again this year with the hope that they would get mistaken for weeds this time around! 

We don't do much from seed as we just don't have the space in our house (or the ability to keep them warm enough) to start them ahead of time. However, we will plant seeds when they can directly go in the ground as is the case with carrots, peas and sunflowers. 

The girls plant the pea seeds. They're going in a wee bit later than we'd have liked but with how funky the weather's been lately we figured better late(r) than never. 

Emma planting sunflower seeds. 

Grace plants her sunflower seeds.

There are still a few more seedlings that we need to buy (squash, zucchini) and we have yet to plant potatoes in the coffee bean sacks (like we did last year) but they're on the agenda too. Once the gardens are complete we'll put the garden gnomes in which is pretty much like putting the cherry on top of the sundae for this Waldorf family! 

While we were busy planting the mail arrived, and in the mail was this very sweet birthday/thank-you gift from my dear friend Patricia (and lovingly made by my super talented artist friend Heather). It was an absolute treat to be gifted this print which totally makes me think of Grace, Emma and I! Thank you, Patricia and Heather, for this absolutely wonderful gift! It's currently on our nature table until I can find the perfect frame and wall for it to hang on! I just adore it (and you both)! xo

Weekending

Oh, friends, we had such a lovely weekend! The weather was glorious and it was one of those weekends that was such a lovely balance of work and play. Our weekend began with a trip to Drumlin Farm for their Tales of the Night event. We had never been before but with the promise of 100 jack-o-lanterns how could we pass it up? The jack-o-lanterns were amazing and the Nursery Rhyme trail was pure fun! Saturday was full of chores and knitting. The final harvest took place and the gardens were put to bed for the winter. Dave worked more on the fence while the girls and I cleaned all the windows. And in between all the chore doing there was much playing and knitting- all done outside, of course. Sunday brought with it the finished fence, pumpkin picking and pumpkin carving (but that's another post all together). Such goodness this weekend, friends, and we hope yours was just as lovely as ours! xo

In Our Garden

This garden of ours continues to impress us as no other vegetable garden that we have had in the past has! It's so full and lush, and each day seems to yield more items than we were expecting. The cherry tomatoes and snap peas are being eaten about as quickly as they are ripening, and we have our first red slicing tomato. too! The cucumbers are out of control this year, and Dave and I have chatted about giving them something to climb next year. It would be lovely to get them off the ground and not have so many vines to move out of the way of other plants. The two sweet sunflowers are just such a lovely dollop of yellow against all the green leaves of this lush garden of ours. The potatoes are going along beautifully too, though our harvesting of them is clearly still a ways off yet. We discovered our first butternut and acorn squashes the other day! I had forgotten we had planted both types! Our sweet piggie Ginger is loving the garden, and we are loving that it's fenced in so she can be out with us without making a mad dash to get under the rhododendron bush! That piggie sure can run fast when she wants to! There's talk of adding a fourth raised bed for next year, and maybe a nicer fence and an archway over the gate for Grace's Morning Glories to climb. They are just starting to climb up the fence, but I can already tell that they are going to make this space even more enchanted than it already feels! xo