This year I decided to throw all caution to the wind (haha) and try for the "garden lottery." There are so many families living here that, of course, they don't have enough garden plots for everyone. Each year they do a lottery so they can be fair about who gets to plant a garden.
Well, guess what? I won the lottery!!!! wooohoooo ;o)
Emily, Ivan and I planted our garden over the last two weekends. Here are some pictures of our gardening extravaganza:
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| Emily is ready to start digging in the dirt. You can see that last Saturday we planted half the garden. |
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| Ivan is mixing in the compost. This ground is mostly clay soil. |
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| a few finishing touches and.... |
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| time to plant!! |
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| A nice pepper plant awaits its new home. |
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| Emily is beautifying the garden with marigold blooms we cut from the plants. |
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| Ivan gets to have some fun, too. |
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| Another pepper plant? Yep. |
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| We have a little corner for herbs. Emily is planting Rosemary. |
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| This pic kind of gives an idea of how all the garden plots are laid out together. |
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| This will be the "before" picture. (Let's hope the "after" picture will look like the plants all decided to grow big!) |
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| Book of Mormon: Alma 32: "Now let us compare faith unto a seed." We take time to read about how faith is compared to a seed from the Book of Mormon. A nice finishing touch. |
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| One garden project complete...time for lunch. We now have to "nourish" our faithful little seeds (and plants) and wait for the fruits of our labor (and pray a lot for success....we are going to need all the help we can get!) |
Awesome!!! That will be so fun. I wish I had a better space to plant a garden. Hope you guys get some good stuff!!
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