Gardens and Sheds!

May 23, 2009

Now that we’ve all been at the Kenton House for a few months, I can definitely call this home.  We’re all falling into our daily routines of work, chores, errands, and hang out times.  As spring has gotten into full swing and now hinting at summer, we’ve all been spending lots of time in the yard mowing, weeding, playing, building and digging!  It’s been a little slow going trying to get the garden in, but with pregnancy, new baby, jobs and toddlers… you do what you can when you can!  The shed is up and just about done, which will provide a lot more space in the house for storage and outdoor tools and bikes.

The veggie beds are about 75% complete as we get the old clayish, garbage ridden dirt out and replaced with new topsoil/compost mix.  We dug down about 18 in. and built up another 12 in. wall, placed some weed guard down and now we’re in the process of filling it up!  Hopefully by next weekend we’ll have our patient little tomatoe starts in.

Before the new fill dirt was put in

We may have a monopoly of tomatoes this year, but we’re thinking it will be a great crop to barter and trade with at the end of the growing season!  So if you’re in the area, and have a garden (natural, organic veggies are prefered!)  we’d love to trade up a few veggies for a bushel of ours!  We also have our herb garden out front which is really flourishing!  Not to mention the many wonderful flowers and strawberry plants that were here already!  Our place is truly beautiful and we all love spending time outdoors!

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