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13 Mar 2009 Gardening with our Constant Gardener…
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So, I have told you how my husband is really into gardening right? Well, we spent most of the day last Saturday helping him get the greenhouse organized inside. He made eight bins to grow plants in and a table and a shelf…..all out of PVC pipe! (Yes, he keeps threatening to make furniture for the house now…..ha!! I don’t think so!) I spent a lot of time working on the liners for the bins he made and he and our little one brought dirt in from the huge pile in the driveway to fill them up. She just loves to help and just gets in there and does what needs to be done….amazing considering she is only 3 years old!

We got out there about 9 O’clock in the morning and it was chilly but nice in the greenhouse. The wind was blowing a bit which was a good test of the stability of the greenhouse. My husband sent me in the house after a while to find some tent stakes we had in our camping stuff because he wanted to put them around the outside of the greenhouse to stabilize it a bit in the wind. I was looking and taking a while and before I knew it my daughter was in the house yelling, “Mommy, daddy needs those bloody stakes!” I smiled to myself as she had no idea what she had said and told her we probably shouldn’t repeat everything that we hear!

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I finally found the stakes much to my husbands relief and with most of what we set out to do done we decided to treat ourselves to ice cream as we had all worked so hard! We have a great old fashioned ice cream stand right down the road from our house and just about every time we pass it my daughter asks if we can have an ice cream……I usually just say, “well, when the weather gets warmer we can do that!” She was psyched! She got a half and half, vanilla and chocolate cone and my hubby and I shared a banana split which I enjoyed immensely as I hadn’t had an ice cream in ages! Yum!!!

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With our tummy’s full we headed to Home Depot to get some more bits and pieces for the garden, we seem to be going there a lot lately! All in all we had a great day! I think I will enjoy it even more when spring finally gets here……I am so tired of the cold…….come on and warm up already!!

Have a great weekend!
Grace

27 Feb 2009 My husband the gardener…..
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When my husband and I bought our home back in 2001 my hubby said, ” OK, I will mow the yard but that’s it for me…..don’t count on my doing much else out in the garden.”   The house we bought had a lot of flower beds and although I like to have flowers and such I am better at it when the weather is mild out, once it gets really hot…..well the weeds usually win.  So, for the first few years I was the one out in the garden weeding and planting etc….. and my husband…well, he mowed the lawn

Then we were blessed with the birth of our  daughter in 2005 so from the time I got pregnant I just kind of stopped doing the gardening so much and my hubby sort of morphed into this “constant gardener”.  He decided he wanted to have a vegetable garden and just got out there and did it.  Then the next year he started transforming more of the  flower beds as I just wasn’t quite honestly doing much with them.  Each year since he has gotten more enthusiastic and well by now most of the flower beds have vegetables planted in them (I think I am down to two little spots to plant now!!!)  He is just having a ball learning about what to plant when, spending his time during the winter reading up and planning what he will plant the next spring.

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Well this winter his thing was building a greenhouse…..out of PVC pipe!  I had my doubts about this plan and wondered where in the world he was going to put the thing but tried to just hold my tongue (which as you know ladies, can be quite difficult!!)  Well this last month he got started and I just watched and listened as he would share how he was going to do this and figure that out.  Last weekend he finished it and like a kid with tinker-toys he is quite proud the his “erection” out in the garden!  :)   I am really proud of him too, he would be the first to say he is not a DIY kind of person but for the last few years he has developed into quite the gardener and the greenhouse he built is just amazing!

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I know he is not done yet and that this is just the beginning of a very interesting year out in our garden.  He still wants to build some cold-frames and then of course the planting starts (he is already starting some things inside!).  Being a person that has trouble relaxing and just taking it easy this is very therapeutic for him.  Our little one loves to be out there with him with her shovel.  Last year she had a pot that she grew various vegetables of her own in and she has a special spot to make mud pies which she loves to do.  She gets as excited as he does when the plants start growing! Once the harvesting starts she is out there every night with him gathering the veggies we need to make dinner.  It’s really lovely to watch them together.

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I am truly amazed at the change in my husband, he has gone from a guy who will just mow the lawn to someone who truly enjoys being out in the garden and has a passion for growing vegetables to feed his family!  How awesome is that, I am blessed to have this man in my life (and he cooks too!!)

So, for any gardening tips…..don’t talk to me, you’ll have to track down my husband :)

Cheers!

Grace