Garden Update

So I planted our first garden at our house back in May and I'm very happy with the results! Braden loves to be in the garden with me and help dig. Just trying to teach him to pull weeds and NOT the vegetables! He loves to dig with some help from Dollarama shovels and some little gardening tools I bought for him at Heritage Park the other day (more on that later!)

The corn never survived...or blended in too much with the weeds to tell a difference! Some of the peas didn't grow but everything else is looking good! Next year I will have to mark my rows so that we actually know where things are to make rototilling and weed control easier in the beginning stages.


We sure are blessed to live in such a beautiful place, aren't we? For those wondering, we're an hour east of Calgary on an acreage. We built our house 1 mile west of the family farm.

Braden and I get out and weed at least once a week. I can do it for about an hour, but then the belly and/or the knees give out and I'm done....and have to come in and lay down for an hour or so to recover!

So I'm pretty proud of my little garden and I can't wait for fresh veggies at the end of the summer! We'll have peas, carrots, green beans, romaine lettuce, onions, and red potatoes!

Then we came out after supper and Jay and Braden hilled the potatoes! I'm so thankful for the summer weather we've had this week. It's making all of us much happier, especially Braden!

P.S. Lazy mommy took all these pictures, unedited, with her iPhone. Not bad eh!? Speaking of "eh" Happy Canada Day to us from  you. Here's our Canada Days from years past and present. (Okay, his 2012 picture is from last weekend...but we aren't going out for celebrations today because we're going to church and then mama has to go back to work!

My First Garden

My very first garden! Jay rototilled me a garden last fall and then did it again this spring and had it all fertilized ready for me to plant. Since the guys were back out seeding on Tuesday, I decided it was a great day to seed too! (This picture is actually BEFORE I planted!)

Braden really loved being outside and he stuck close by for almost an hour...then got bored and decided to go up to the house.

Don't mind our patchy grass, it's coming slowly but surely! 

This year I planted corn, peas, carrots, green beans, romaine lettuce, red potatoes, & some parsley! We will soon have a tomato plant inside...but I think our weather is too fussy, and so are tomatoes, I'd kill them if they lived outside!

Braden actually had his first nap, all on his own that day, so when he was asleep, I took the monitor outside with me, finished up my planting, came in and had a shower all before he woke up super happy! It was such a great day. And as one of my IG friends pointed out, not but 3 days earlier we had a snow storm. Now we were outside in shorts and I even got some color on my shoulders & arms when I was wearing my tank top. Thanks for the great weather, Alberta!