Spring...It's Kind of My Thing

I love all things Spring: the new leaves bursting from the trees, the warm sunshine, and the perfect jeans-and-tank-top temperature, but the thing I love most about this Spring is our new garden. Mitch has spent the last two weekends working through spurts of rain and sunshine to finish up the boxes for our new fruit & vegetable garden. I've got all of the seeds started, and we'll thin them out and see what actually makes it into the ground in a couple of weeks once they've started sprouting some more and there's some dirt in the beds. Right now I've got watermelon, cantaloupe, zucchini, tomatoes, yellow squash, wax beans, green beans, snow peas and eggplant as well as some mammoth sunflowers and herbs. We'll also be buying some pepper plants and a whole bed-full of strawberries and planting carrot seeds once we get the ground ready. I'm so excited - hopefully it will be worth all the effort! We've previously been successful growing zucchini, peppers and yellow squash...and I think that we managed to have one teeny little watermelon once. Hopefully we'll have lots of produce this summer!

New leaves on our baby trees

Mitch re-purposed our old broken down bike trailer into a handy garden cart for me - love it!

The only things the garden beds need now are a coat or two of paint and some good soil!

Starting my garden from seed this year

The forerunner in the seed sprouting race is currently these yellow wax beans

Despite loads of sunscreen, we all managed to get a little too pink in the sunshine while we celebrated the first day of Spring with a giant Play Doh party outside.



I even manged to get in a little Spring Cleaning this weekend: I re-organized and labeled my Montessori and preschool activities cupboard.