Our Garden is BACK!!

Ok, I know you've been anxiously waiting at the edge of your seat for me to post that we've done something with our garden. For those of you who don't religiously read my blog or go back and re read my blog endlessly... here's the short story:


A year ago Pattie gave me an idea to start a fairy garden for the girls, which they LOVED the concept of. The reality? We killed the flowers, twice. So, Pattie and I came to the conclusion that while part of it may be my lack of a green thumb, our dirt was old, untouched for years and icky. So D&P said you dig the planter out and we'll fill it. Well that planter ended up being about 18 feet long 3-4 feet wide and 2 feet deep. It was a monster to dig. Well by the time we accomplished this task, it was closing in on winter. So we waited. 2 weeks ago D&P brought over 10 bags of soil and 3 euonymus (sounds like yowannamus!) shrubs. But alas, that weekend it began to rain, and the following weekend we all were busy. Nervous that the plants weren't long for this world trapped in buckets, Josh and I decided to dive in head first this Sunday and here is what we did!



The plan with the old dirt was to mix it with the new soil that D&P brought over. The tricky part was, the dirt was sitting in 2 huge mounds next to the trench, and had been rained on, baked in the sun, and even had their own colony of weeds growing on them after sitting there for 6 months! So what does one do? Put those kids to work! HA! We may have broken a few child labor laws along the way, but they were happy to go into demolition mode and break those mounds down to a nice smooth mixture. In dresses and flip flops no less!

But, alas, little girls run out of steam, and don't like being sweaty. So what do you next? Get Grandpa involved!!! Josh's parents come over every Sunday to eat lunch with the girls before they head back to their mom's house. Wver a softy, Steve couldn't just sit and watch 2 little girls and a preggo lady digging dirt, so he hopped right in. Things went a lot faster for he and Josh than it did for Josh with the 3 of us girls helping!

5 hours (yes, 5, I could not believe it!) and 24 trips with the wheel burrow later, we finished!! I am so thrilled to have it full and to kiss those dirt mounds GOODBYE! The fine print on the yardwaste bin says do not dump dirt, so we'll have to add a little to the bottom each week (don't tell) to get rid of the extra old dirt we didn't use up. Then we'll have to reseed the grass where the dirt mounds were, but a small minor detail that is totally worth it! Next weekend, we go pick out flowers! I can't wait!!