the first bloom of the season in our yard
I have window sills full of potential. And floors and counters and tables. There are seedlings everywhere. I got completely ahead of myself with the warm weather veggies and now I have no idea what I’m going to do with this big, thriving plants that can’t actually go in the ground for another two months yet!
I’m all set with starts, but less prepared for actually putting things in the ground. There is just literally too much ground to cover. There is so much space that needs cultivating and so much we (I) want to accomplish in this one short season. There are all the things that we want to do because it’s a new to us space, but also we have made the difficult decision, after 10 years, to not return to our beloved CSA. As wonderful as our experience there has been, and as dear to us all as that community is, it’s very far away now. We talked about it and came to the conclusion that what we really need is more time all together as a family, without anywhere that we need to go, then spending one of the only days we have to be all together, running all over creation doing errands (the CSA being close to town means that it only makes sense to do all of the grocery shopping, etc, at the same time). So instead we’ve decided to use the money that would have gone into our share to try to grow as much as we can at home.
So far this time together in the garden thing is not really working out. We are so busy, after work and on the weekends, that poor Steve never seems to get any time out there. Which is sad for us both as we’ve always enjoyed working side by side to create our gardens. Things will get easier as we cross things off of our house work list and our schedule lets up considerably in June. For now the garden is my domain. With lots of little helpers eager to get their own small plots in order.
We are out there in the afternoons, after school work, nearly every day.
Oh, it is good to be surrounded by green growing things and have a garden of my very own to putter about in again!
okay, so I am of course enamored by the love and care and beauty you put into your plants and growing things. . . but then I saw that little girl of yours looking like she belongs in an Eloise Wilkins book, and you lost me there. Oh my, she’s perfect.
What a beautiful space you will have come summer! We’ve just built our first raised garden bed and I’m so excited to try it out this year.