It's Garden Time

The weather has been gorgeous lately. It's hard to stay inside or even home. We ventured out to church to work on our garden yesterday.

The ground needed to be tilled after sitting for months.

My Lutheran Stud is checking out the beautiful soft dirt.

While it may seem like it's just dirt at our garden that's wrong! We still have a row of carrots in the ground and they're perfect!

We picked one row of carrots in the fall and kept them in a box, filled with sand, in our garage. That row lasted almost the entire winter. Since I finally ran out of carrots we pulled a few to bring home, and they're still crunchy. 

We planted spinach, lettuce, cabbage, and brussel sprouts.

Soaker hoses! We began using a few of these hoses last year and they are great. Before, we had a few different varieties of sprinklers. The problem in our area is wind. If we had the sprinklers on, the wind would blow the water in wonky directions and sometimes didn't do a very good job watering our crops.

For now my Lutheran Stud just places the hoses directly over the seeds and the water goes directly into the ground before the wind has a chance to blow it away. 

Isn't this exciting? Have you started planting yet? On Sunday mornings I like to watch the garden man on 9News before we leave for church. He has begun planting his garden too, so you better hop to it.