Our New Garden

I'm happy to announce that my garden beds are in! It was a lot of work and we were all exhausted afterwards but it was well worth it. It looks so cute! We ended up doing two 4x4 beds and my dad came up with the idea to make a grid over the boxes out of narrow boards in order to keep all my different crops divided. Plus, I think it looks really cute.

My dad is amazing. No really. He did so much work and wouldn't even let me buy him lunch! He is so knowledgable, about literally everything, and I feel so lucky to have him living less than 10 minutes away. We're very close and I appreciate all he does for me...I'm very lucky when it comes to my amazing parents!

I have to give a huge pat on the back to Tommy for all the hard work he did. For someone who was really opposed to a garden, he worked his butt off to help. We had to dig out the grass because our yard has a slope near the back and it was a lot of hard labor that I am just not strong enough to do. I promised to cook lots of his favorite meals and scratch his back in return. Ah the compromises of marriage.

My dad was a rockstar when it came to the soil. Seriously. It's a loose, organic mixture of vermiculite, composted cow manure, mushroom compost, and peat moss

Here's my dad putting the mixture together

And Tommy doing lots of manual labor worthy of a good meal and a back scratching :)

Sweet little Ruby and Ozzy and my Mama supervised...

I didn't take a ton of photos of the building process since I was doing a lot of the work but here is the finished product! I think it looks so cute!!

And of course, my sweet little Keller came over to help the boys out and was working hard with Ozzy on his tricks. It was so sweet! Ozzy just loves him

My new favorite photo of our Ozzy-babe. I think he has Edward Cullen eyes in this photo!

Then I got some pics of Keller helping his Uncle Mimi and Pawpaw lay down straw over our freshly planted grass seed. It was so sweet how proud he was to help! I saw him yesterday and he asked how my grass and garden were growing...such a sweet boy

He was pushing the metal pins in the ground to hold the straw

And of course Ozzy thought it was all for him so he'd have somewhere to lay down. So spoiled...

So far, we've my cold weather plants: shallots, spinach and leaf lettuce. In about a week or so, we should have some fresh, organic produce right in our backyard!

Also, I used Random.org to find a winner for the Blog Giveaway I posted last week. And the winner is N.! Email me at lmholo[at]gmail[dot]com and I'll send your mixed tape (on a cd!) out in the mail to you! Also, thanks to all 5 of you for the comments!

Cheers,

Lynsey

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