the Happy Gardener

I think Crys is rubbing off on me. I'm becoming a sentimental sap and getting all giddy over things that I never would have in years past. The thing I am probably most proud of currently is my garden. Two Friday's ago, Crys' dad came over to help with the tilling of the garden with his power tiller. We had a fun time with it especially when he cut clean through our cable line! :) The following day on Saturday I spent my entire morning lining the garden with red bricks that you see here.




Once I was done with lining the garden I still had over 20 bricks left scattered throughout the yard that had to be stacked up so they didn't kill the lawn. So I spent a good hour or so moving all of those over to our patio. They weighed about 20lbs a piece and since I'm big, fat and out of shape, it really wore me out. :) I then raked the garden since it was still full of rocks, roots, broken garden spades, batteries, toy cars, you name it and I've found it in our garden. I took a break for a few hours and came back out around 5 pm and spent about 2 hours planting 9 rows of onions: 3 rows of red, 3 rows of white and 3 rows of yellow.


I'm sure there have been a few days that didn't fit this mold since then, but it seems like it has literally rained every 2nd day since that Saturday. For sure it has rained every day that I've wanted to work in the garden. And it's not just a light sprinkle. It's a good solid rain, and in the case of last Thursday, we had really severe thunderstorms and tornado warnings. I've actually been pretty worried about my poor little onion plants. Today, before General conference, I was cleaning the house and spent some time in the garden. This is the first chance I've had to weed in the garden since day 1 and grass was trying to take over my precious garden. So I spent a good 30 minutes uprooting grass and other various weeds and I was ecstatic to see almost all of my onions have already taken root and started sending up shoots! I have included some pictures and I hope you can see them ok. That's my finger next to it for comparison. That's about the average size of the plants with some much smaller, and 2 much bigger! I will be planting more veggies as it warms up and will keep you all posted. Here are two more pictures of my yummy onions!