Planting Potatoes

Thanks to our dear friend Sarah, the kindness of some local coffee roasters and this video we planted potatoes today! This is our first time planting potatoes, and we're super excited to see how this all goes. Our potatoes should be ready in the late summer or early fall but we'll surely keep ya'll posted along the way! xo

Easter Planting

For the last several years we have been planting Easter grass for use in the girls Easter baskets. I have never liked the plastic Easter grass and so when I first heard of the idea of planting grass for the use in Easter baskets you better believe we ran with it. Earlier this week we gathered the necessary supplies, donned fairy wings and headed out to the yard (if only the grass was already green!) to get the Easter grass started. And now we wait. And watch. Soon the bowls will be bursting forth with beautiful shoots of green. With any luck, our world will be in bloom soon too! 

Easter Planting

Today we decided was a good day to get our hands dirty and plant the Easter basket grass.  We did this for the first time last year and loved it.  So much better than that icky plastic stuff and as an added bonus our sweet kitty cat can nibble away on it!  

Next up was creating our own Lenten Garden. I had seen this in the latest issue of Rhythm of the Home and thought it was such a sweet idea. In the past we have never really done much with Lent here in our home. I was raised in the UCC. Dave was raised Roman Catholic. His experience with Lent is totally different than mine and much more what you think of when you hear the word "Lent".  When we were newlyweds we had initially decided not to choose one's denomination over the other's.  Long story short, that didn't really work out so well and in the end we decided that the UCC was the right fit for us and the sweet, little family we've created. Fast forward to this Lent and feeling the need to do something as a lead up to Easter. This project couldn't have crossed my path at a better time. It was sweet and simple and fit right in to what the girls are doing in their Faith Workshop classes on Sundays at church.  

Each week we will add a little something more to our garden.  On Good Friday we'll put a caterpillar behind the big rock, and on Easter Sunday when the girls remove the rock they will discover a beautiful butterfly in its place. But shhhhh! Don't tell! That part is a surprise! 

Planting Easter Grass

Fingers crossed that the cat grass seed we planted grows as high as I need it to for the girls Easter baskets.  This is the first year that we are using real grass instead of the fake grass (that I loath).  Looking forward to seeing how this project turns out!



Planting Seeds

Today was a cold, rainy, gloomy day. So in order to bring a little more spring to our day I thought it would be fun to plant the carrot seeds we bought last Friday. Dave decided that he wanted to try growing carrots in our garden this year, so we picked up some seeds and a wonderful little indoor greenhouse from Burpee on Friday and planted them today.

This little greenhouse is really neat!

For the pellets to work they needed to be wet so that they could expand and turn into soil for the seeds to be placed in. It was so cool to see it happen.  I had a feeling this step should be done by  me so I had Grace take pictures.  They came out pretty good, if I do say so myself.

"Shhh!"

"A Night!"

And now we wait.  

Enjoy the rest of the day, friends. 

We'll see you tomorrow.