In February, we became the proud renters of a Community Garden plot. The garden is conveniently located right next to our apartment buildings and it’s been a great opportunity to meet people. The fee for renting the plot is $35. Part of the renter’s agreement requires us to give 50% of our crops to Mission Arlington. Water is provided and UTA dumps some of their beautiful black compost at the garden for us to use. The first thing Josh did was replace nearly all the soil (mostly sand) with compost.
In deciding what to plant, we chose to focus on produce by what is more expensive in the grocery store. In February we planted two types of lettuce, along with kale (colder weather crops). The lettuce is doing great and we’ve already enjoyed several salads. The kale is not doing so well. In March, we planted tomatoes and green peppers. I say “we” – but I should clarify and say that JOSH is doing all the garden work.
Becca loves going to the garden – mainly to run around the plots and sit on the benches. It’s been a good training ground for learning to obey right away, since it’s a large area. We all enjoy having picnics at the garden. This past week, we found ladybugs on our lettuce. Becca loves having ladybugs crawl all over her.
On Sunday we dashed to a used book sale – we made it in 3 minutes before they closed down. We grabbed enough children’s books to fill a box (price was $2.50 +tax per box). We ended up with several good books. Most of them are “retired” books from the public library. It was a great deal and we’re looking forward to the next sale in September!
Photo Story: Selah Johnson’s 10th Birthday Party. On Saturday, Becca and I attended Selah’s birthday. Becca was the youngest in attendance. She had a great time – which means Mommy did too. One hit was the soda bottle launcher. Becca loved getting wet!
I just can’t get over how quickly that garden grew from just a month ago! Great work. I hope to follow in your footsteps of gardening next year!
Your little family is so industrious! I have such great memories of “helping” my dad in our garden when I was little. I know Becca will remember it! I love the picture of Becca smiling and running away from the bottle launcher 🙂
Very impressive work, Josh! Amy, I love how you put together the outfit that Becca has on at the party.
Beautiful garden! Brings back memories of our early gardens. Remember eating the hot pepper, Josh? And what a great deal on all the books. You can throw away any you don’t like for that price. Looks like Becca had a great time at the party – and a battle scar? A fun and busy week.
Becca is beautiful!! I am quite jealous! but it only makes sense, because her mother is the prettiest thing ever <3
What a neat looking garden – and everything seems to be growing so fast! Grandpa did get our little plot cultivated last Tuesday, but so far the only thing thats been planted is lettuce. Hope it does as well as yours! Thanks for all the great pictures! We love you!