the spring garden ~ 2023.

 

george bailey.

new garden beds.

potatoes.

creeping phlox.

aunt nanna's peony.

clematis.

peas.

garlic.

onions.

baby's breat.

hobbit bench.

{jesse found the wood while foraging years ago.}

oregnao.

pillow fight rose.

crab apple.

tulip.

lilac.

red bud.

shawn's bleeding heart.

violet.

quince.

grandpa roy's hawthorne.

flowering cherry.

grandma jane's forsythia.

sharen's grape hyacinth.

aunt nanna's magnolia.

This is the season of preparation, anticipation, enjoying the beginnings of beautiful color! We are amending the soil, mulching the garden beds, clearning out the old, transplanting as needed (100 daffoldil bulbs!). Trimming, tidying, weeding. We are already able to enjoy herbs (oregano and sage) and some blooms indoors. We regularly grow around 500 pounds of produce, but this year I am preparing for a larger harvest. We built more garden beds last fall and expanded the potato bed (double the size!). Now, we need to figure out where to fit a couple of more beds for all the sweet potato slips arriving in early June. My work is my family and my home, but even more so this growing season will I be able to tend to the garden as we have no adventures planned for the summer as we support our children in new endeavors. For many years we have traveled to such beautiful places ~ South Dakota, Denver, Wisconsin, Tennesse, Dallas, Chicago, Maine, California, Arkansas ~ and many places in between. The memories of those travels and togetherness are some of the sweetest for me. This summer at home, though, hearkens me back to the very early years of being planted in one place. There is work to do supporting my family into a new season of life, but I also see pockets of rest too. New seasons for the garden and our lives bring much needed refreshment.