A Labor of Love?

Well at least a labor of love for good food! I spent the whole day (literally from when I woke up at 8:30am till after 10pm) in my yard. Thankfully mom can and helped me several times. Firstly we finished planting and weeding the west and south sides of the house that have the planters, then we laid weed barrier around plants and topped it all off with the rubber mulch. Looks nice if I do say so myself!

We even planted a walnut tree so hopefully someday there will be shade and yummy nuts!

Then we went on errands to find garden plants! We ended up getting tomatoes, beans, peppers, potatoes, cucumbers, cantaloupe, pumpkins, lettuce, spinach, onions, assorted herbs and I am sure I missed something. A few things like strawberries and peas it is too late to put in this year, but I will look for them in the fall and get them ready for next year.

When we got back I learned how to use Dad's edger and edged my lawn (which Scott was so sweet as to mow on Wednesday) and then got to work on the garden! I spent another five hours tonight tilling the soil (literally!) and planting! I am sooooooooooooo sore, but I am excited to start getting yummy food to cook with and do fun stuff with. Scott helped me to some shoveling and then I went after it until way past dark.

Now I am going to treat myself to a long soak in the tub with chocolate and a good book, followed by some yoga stretches in the hopes that I can still move in the morning. I will let you know about that tomorrow.

(I will be adding pics in the morning; they don't really work now in the dark!)