We're so excited that spring is here that we wet our PLANTS!

We are going to be keeping track of our garden progress... in pictures! So... once every single week on Monday morning, I (Caley) will take pictures of the garden. That way we can blog about it!

Lord willing, we will be posting a week by week update on our garden, weekly!

Lettuce start from the beginning, building the garden. Week one. :)

Thank you Daddy so much for helping us build the garden! We could not have ever done it without you. I love you Daddy!

Cutting the wood to size.

Emily!

This is the only picture of me while gardening, sadly. Oh well! I get to be the photographer too! :)

Done and ready for planting!

I love our little backyard homestead!

A sneak peak to the next post. Stay tuned!

*Picture credit to Caley Lemay*

Latest Projects

I've been working on a couple of projects lately! These are good ones to work on in the car or waiting for something. We have a long drive to NC this weekend so I should get quite a bit done.

My tatting (lace making) is coming along nicely! I am making it to put on a handkerchief for my grandmother. The handkerchief is 9.5" square so that means I have to tat it 39" long, so far I only have about 16" long.

I am also knitting a shawl for my Memere (French for Grandmother) I'm doing double knitting on this one! Its going to look really cool when its done. I think its going to take a while to finish.

Garden Planning

It's time to start planning our garden! 8 more day's (LORD willing) 'till we leave for our farm house.
Once we get there we need to get a garden in fast to get the spring crop in. We get there the end of April and we plan to start building up the garden the second week of May. I am so excited! I keep having to remind myself to think small, but I keep wanting to do a really big garden. We all came to a decision for the garden layout, four 8'X4' raised beds. We can always add more latter if we want. After that was final, I was doing some math, and found out that just those 4 beds are 129 sq feet. WOW! Then I was figuring how many plants can I fit in one bed (32 sq feet)? Well I found out in just 4 sq feet we can plant 64 carrots! Same thing with the Bush Beans, we can plant 9 plants per sq foot, and if we plant 4 sq feet of beans altogether we would have 37 bean plants. Now I'm thinking its not so small. :)