Finally, we can see the ground! Finally, the ground has thawed! Finally, temperatures are over 40 degrees (temperatures over 30 felt like a victory)! Finally, we can get outside and burn off some energy! My boys are soooooo over winter and frankly, so am I. Over 100 inches of snow fell last season and the snowpack peaked at 24 inches. Temperatures were low; and so were our spirits. But we made it though somehow and I've never been happier to say hello to spring!
With the start of spring comes the start of outside projects. This year our goal is to plant some trees around the yard to provide some shade and privacy between us and the newly built homes behind us. Trees on the roster include: Norway Maple - Crimson King, Adams Crabapple, and a Plum. We're plotting the yard tonight to see what will work best where.
Today was also the first day of garden planning. Stu rototilled today (with this help of his trusty sidekicks) and manure will be going in soon. Growing lists are also being planned out already.There are still over a dozen bags of frozen beans, two bags of frozen zucchini, four quarts of pasta sauce, countless jars of salsa and four jars of sweet pickles from last fall. All in all, we did pretty good and made good use of our crops last year. This year, we're switching it up a little. Bub loves watermelon so we're going to try our hand at growing some for him. We'll still grow some tomatoes and lettuce. Everything else is up for discussion.
We also switched over to organic fertilizer and weed control for the grass. I've been wanting to make the switch for a while for the animals that live around us but also because last year we had some issues with the tomato plants. We couldn't figure out why the leaves closer to the ground were curly and twisted and finally deduced it was due to the weed spray we used.
And so spring begins, a new season begins, projects begin and life returns.
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