Mother's Day Gardening

I had a great Mother's day with the family today. Hubby gave me a hammock to relax in the shade. Quite comfy, I tried it out this afternoon. The girls each gave me something they made at school, very sweet. After breakfast we went out to the hardware store to pick up a few garden tools, the the local nursery for plants!

This afternoon we planted the garden. First I replaced the landscape timbers at each end of the garden that had been pulled up to till. Then I set up a 2x2 ft grid to plant in.



We got everything out & decided where to put the plants & where to plant the seeds, and went to town. Each girl got a square for pumpkins and a pot for the flowers they picked out. We planted corn, tomatoes, peppers, cilantro, parsley, lavender, lettuce, marigolds, geraniums, bird house gourds, carrots, strawberries, pumpkins, peppermint ...



Nora helped rake the seeds in & planted most of the flowers. Emily helped plant the lettuce & carrots. Shannon planted tomatoes & peppers. I planted most of the herbs.

When we were done, we all took turns in the hammock.



We still have 4 squares to fill. One will take the strawberries that came up from Rolla with us. (I haven't killed them yet!!) And at least one more will take some onions ... Don't know what to plant in the last 2 yet, but I'm sure we'll find something.

Now we watch & wait.