Gardening

The weather here has turned towards spring and it's been absolutely gorgeous!  The temps are staying in the mid to upper 60's and we've had sunny, cloudless skies for several days.  After a harsh and brutal winter, the spring is like paradise.  Mark and I put some steak on the grill last evening and sat outside with our glasses of wine while it cooked.  The humidity was so low and we both remembered the god-awful summer weather back in Maryland.  In spite of the winters here, I wouldn't want to go back to that climate again.  I'll gladly put up with a long, cold winter so we can have 5 months of weather like this!

I bought some seeds yesterday and hope I can get them planted this week - pole and bush beans, cucumbers, summer squash and some red and yellow onion sets.  I'll be getting the tomatoes and pepper plants this week as well.  I'm still toying with the idea of a "salad" garden too. I need lots of supplies - heavy gauge wire fencing (to keep the bunnies out), rebar for stakes, tomato cages and fertilizer.  Its a big garden, 15 x 20, so there'll be some cost involved  Thank goodness for a nice tax refund!

We're trying to eat more healthy and "close to the source" which is why we want to grow our own vegetables.  Being carnivores, meat is a necessity and I'm buying that locally as well and making sure it's hormone and chemical free.  Since I can't find a full-time job, my contribution to the family finances is to freeze and can enough to get us through the next winter.  I hope I can do all I plan...it sounds like an awful amount of work.  It's worth it.