Garden

This summer we embarked on an adventure in gardening (which beginning out we knew very little about). We (mostly Marc) built a fence around the garden, which has proven to be one of the most beneficial things we have done for the garden (keep my sweet puppy out of said garden). While we knew little of gardens we learned a few things: don't plant stuff so close together, weeds grow overnight, fresh produce is AMAZING! This year our success came in terms of 8 gallon zip lock bags full of raspberries in our freezer plus whatever we ate and we are about to have a TON of watermelon (which when it was all viney I was hoping was pumpkin but alas I will deal with delightful watermelon).

color on this picture is weird but they were tastey

start of watermelon

And a glimpse into dog-a-palooza at my house

Have you had success with gardening?
What have you gotten to grow?
What are your favorite things to grow?
Do you have a green thumb?

May Photo Dump

Soooooooo many wedding projects
these are some of the meal tags for the reception

Camp is now open and we have our first
payment for renting the camp!

Dakota has no clue she is a dog

My freshmen catechism class
I don't want to confirm them because I want to keep them in catechism
I have had a marvelous time with this class

Dakota loving the green grass

Applying for a marriage license

My fiance designed this sweet gate and fence to surround our garden
Goal: keep out Dakota and Rabbits

When remodeling the new men's side of the bathhouse
we realized a problem we hadn't considered
6 foot 4 inch men looking over the stalls

Fargo finisher Medals
I love my medal display that proudly hangs in my living room

Adventures in Composting

We have begun our adventures in composting. I am thrilled and couldn't be more excited, seriously. We have been talking about it and reading lots and lots of stuff about composting. We finally gave in and got a composting bin from our local arboretum for super cheap. I know you can make your own but I didn't have a garbage can sitting around and the price on this was about the same as buying a can that I would have to drill holes into. We had some leaves left over from last year that fell after we did our big raking job and so we put about four inches of dried leaves in the bottom of the can. We then added some stale bread and my banana peel from dinner. Our composting journey has begun. I am pretty excited to see how it works and am excited about the potential of having nutrient rich soil in a few months. This is something I have been interested in for several years and just haven't had the guts to start.

My theory now is that I may as well try and fail rather than fail by surely not trying, at least I have a chance at succeeding by trying. We also have bought some seeds and are going to attempt a small garden this year, nothing fancy and we know that we have to at least attempt to try it. So here is to taking my hand at gardening with two very nongreen thumbs! 

Luther and Dakota playing in the yard while we set up the compost and the
start of a garden