Just had to share my first dream day out this spring… I’ve been waiting so long for a day like today. I wasn’t going to waste a moment of it!
Planted speckled lettuce, heirloom curly kale, Silver beet Swiss chards, Early Wonder Top beets, Bloomsdale spinach, wild aragula and a mix of early heirloom radishes. We’ve decided to NOT till the soil this year after watching a permaculture conference. This patch is only partially tilled every year because half of it is our perennial ground cherry culture. So we figured, we’ll try it on the whole lot! We just added some compost on top of the planting area and I guess we’ll see what happens.
I also planted 4 kinds of heirloom variety snap and shell peas (Tom Thumb, Sugar Snap, Blue podded and Cascadia). And no, you are not going crazy. We had an old mattress in he garage so my hubby gutted it for us to use as a trellis. 🙂
And while little man happily and peacefully slept away the warm afternoon…
… Mama finally got an hour to sit on her patio and read, watching over him…
Have a GREAT week-end everyone!
Family, Faith, Food and Fabric 
So glad you finally got a day outside. We all need it after this winter.
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Oh yes we do! And I just realized coming in earlier that all my day lilies are pushing up! Everything is happening so much faster than usual. I think nature needs it as much as we do!
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Sweet picture! Brings back memories of my sleeping babes. Wonderful time! What book are you reading? Yesterday we borrowed a fresh stacks of books from the library. We love books!
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He just sleeps so well outside!
I’m reading the last installment of Ally Condie’s “Matched” trilogy, “Reached”… Good series. Young adult dystopian, but different. Less vampires, more brainy. I enjoyed it. 🙂
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What are you guys reading?
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Good morning! So glad you could get out yesterday. We did, too. We walk in the neighborhood most days. Yesterday was the first time to wear shorts. We’ll need to get out today, too, as the next few inches should see a lot of rain.
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next few *days, not *inches!
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Haha! I figured… 🙂
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Yeah, we are in the midst of 2 days of cold and wet, so I’m really glad we got out when we did. I’m just waiting for May 1st. They are forecasting over-average weather starting then and on for the following 7 days. It will be nice. Not short weather, but maybe no scarf and hat weather! LOL!
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How lovely! The mattress trellis is a brilliant idea.
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Thank you! We had the old mattress in the garage. We figured HOW PERFECT! Our peas get so heavy every year that our string trellises always ends up bending down and such. I would love to see the peas try and bend this!
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Hurray, very happy, happy, happy for you! And I love the mattress trellis idea.
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Thank you! And yes, we were pretty thrilled to find that idea online. Saved us from having to have the old stained mattress picked up!
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Wow. Busy, busy, busy! So excited to read about your gardening this year. I haven’t posted about mine yet because… well… I haven’t even started, lol.
P.S. Loving the trellis 😛
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Poor you, I wouldn’t have anything to talk about gardening wise if it wasn’t for the fact that my hubby dug out my gardens bed for me! I can’t wait to read about your gardening as well once you get it started! What do you grow?
Trellis was our little genius web find for this year! Looking forward to seeing it filled with peas!!!!
Thank you for stopping by!
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love to see old stuff given new life…bravo!
thanks for visiting Old Maid New…so nice of you to stop by 🙂
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You are welcome! Love finding new blogs!
We are all about upcycling here.On our way to a pretty minimalist kind of life here. Finding new ways to use old stuff is like gold to us so we’ll try just about anything!
Thank you for stopping by as well. Hope to see you back soon!
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I did that stroller to nap to garden thing SO much when Aerilaya was little. It’s such a great way to get some exercise then get some gardening done! Everything is looking great, love the trellis, I look forward to seeing everything come alive in the next few weeks!
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Thank you! I’m hoping it does… I won’t lie, I’m worried. Worse case scenario, I succession sow in 2 weeks. So far, out of everything, we have ONE little arugula seedling. That is it! 😛 Of course, never having warmer than a 13’C day and a 5’C night can’t be helping. LOL! Thanks for stopping by!
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Our arugula sprouted even after a -3C spell! It will come! I’ve learned to sow thickly and thin out later rather than having low germination rate 🙂
and yes succession sowing every 2 weeks I think is the key to Canadian Gardening! All our funky weather patterns!
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Indeed!
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