Our Garden

So....we have lived in our new home for almost eight months now. To all of those who are wondering where your invite has been - it's still coming. We're just not the best entertainers. For five years we've lived in a tiny apartment that wasn't too welcoming and so we've been out of practice.

Jeff's eyes have been opened to all of the work that comes with homeownership. It includes mowing the lawn, watering the lawn, trimming the lawn, prepping our swamp cooler, pulling weeds, trimming bushes, trimming trees, fixing broken sprinklers; etc. We can only imagine what it would have been like if we had bought a fixer-upper!

Our pride and joy right now though is our garden. It was one of those things we dreamt of when we were renters. We pulled out a pond (which was really nice but too tempting for our little one), filled it in with dirt and started planting. We have eggplant, strawberries, tomatoes, broccoli, brussel sprouts, pumpkin, peppers, and zucchini. It sounds like a lot but we kept our garden pretty small. We didn't want to overdo it since we don't know what we're doing.

The great thing is it has been about a month and our plants are still alive. What's more is they're growing! I'm sure most of you have bounteous gardens and could teach us a thing or two about gardening. Please, if you have any suggestions, bring them on.

Here are some pictures. Enjoy!

This is the before.

This is the after (or at least the "so far").

Here is the rest of our backyard. Our next plan is to cut down the big pine tree and plant a fruit tree. We're leaning towards either an apricot or cherry tree.

Sofía is planting her pumpkin plant that began as a little seed. She loves to water it so much that she doesn't know when to stop.

We've decided no one is too small to do yard work. She has to earn her way somehow.

Here we are in the Memory Grove Park. Although we don't live downtown anymore we still make frequent visits.