The Schweitzer’s Place

The last day or two we planted many of the seedlings that we started indoors. Today, I took off work a couple hours early and finished planting the seeds with Deanna. If all grows well, we’ll have all sorts of goodies to snack on this year. I think we’ll have a couple more plantings to fill in some gaps and tweak things a bit. But, we have a pretty good start here.

I’ve included a sketch of the garden that I hope to improve. I think I am going to give Google Sketchup a try to plot this out. But don’t wait around for that….

Now that we have our garden planted (at least mostly planted) it is going to freeze tonight. We hurried and created a make-shift cover for three of the garden beds. In the process of pounding in the stakes I smashed my hand. With our luck the sheets will blow off, ripping a plant out on the way. Then the rest of the plants will freeze and die. Well garden, it was fun while it lasted. We’ll give it another try if all gets messed up tonight. As long as we don’t get wind, it will be OK.

It was the first truly warm day in New England. When I took the car for a short trip it registered in the high 80′s. I almost felt too hot for a minute, then I remembered how much I like the warmth. It may take another day to get used to it, but I am glad spring is finally here.

We spent a good portion of the day working in the yard. This year we are building four different beds for a garden and a few pots with herbs and salsa necessities. The beds are simple square wooden border beds each 8 foot by 4 foot. We also built a compost pile with some 1/2 inch hardware cloth. It is almost full already, but that is OK.

Bailey and Brandon played in the yard all day. It was as usual — Bailey eating grass, dirt and whatever else he could find while Brandon played with a ball the WHOLE TIME. I know we will ALL sleep good tonight.