Planting the Garden

Wahoo! Spring! (At least we hope it's permanent this time! No more snow this month, please.) Time for what has become one of my most favorite annual Feist-family traditions -- planting the garden together.

We worked really hard on the drip irrigation system and placed special black fabric that prevents weeds from growing between the rows (great stuff!). The walls of water around the tomatoes and peppers act like little greenhouses until the plants are bigger. Although Trent had, I had never seen those before, but they're really cool. Altogether, it's a pretty sweet setup.

This year Camden was a lot more "helpful."

He traipsed around, walking on the seeds, scooping up stuff with his bucket and shovel, eating dirt, and singing to himself all the while. He is quite a character.

As you can see, I set up a little play area for him, but he really wanted to be with us instead.

Last year at planting time Cam was just learning to sit up, so it was a little bit of a different arrangement!

Check out my little strawberry patch! It will be fun to watch them develop over the years. I was really psyched to find out strawberries are perennials! I've already had a handful of berries this year, and they were soooo sweet. Mmm... Here's to lots of fresh strawberry shortcake in years to come!

Camden exploring the wood pile. He was pretty excited about the wagon, too.

Trent watering some of our raspberry bushes. Isn't the lilac pretty? I love springtime.

This year we'll have potatoes, cucumbers, corn, peas, green beans, carrots, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, watermelon, cantaloupe, peppers, squash, pumpkins and lots of berries. Yummm... And thank heaven for our vacuum sealer and chest freezer!