First fall garden
fall transplants
We spent the better part of Saturday and Sunday cleaning out the summer garden (a.k.a. dried-up plant and vegetable matter dotted with dehydrated kitty poop that I’m blaming on the deviant new cat in the hood), mixing up good ole mushroom compost with some healthier manure (cow), and dressing our neglected beds for an autumnal veggie plot. Really I should call this a broccoli garden since that’s about all I could find transplant-wise around town. That and a few lettuces and sweet peas. Seed-sowing and indoor starts are not yet a possibility in our tiny, baby-ridden camp (to have carrots, watermelon radishes, parsnips, beets!) But the kids had fun with it, Jack especially since he could put his digger and dump truck to good use. Eloise mostly shoveled and rearranged the plants again and again and again. Ah, the life of a toddler….it’s like a cross between being OCD and having absolutely no short-term memory. We started on this a little late, we’ve had nights in the low, low 40′s, so I’m not holding my breath, but how nice it will be to have sweet peas! and lettuce and broccoli (the broccoli might ruin us).
in the beds!
In other news, I am absolutely dying to get up to the mountains for a weekend. Who’s in? I’m down with rustic…. And the kids need to see some sights….
