Gardening

Updates On What We Have Been Up To In May

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Yesterday Woodine, MaryP, and I visited Woodine's grandparents. Her grandma mentioned we hadn't updated our blog and she's right. So here goes:

I haven't had to work for the last few weeks. (Kind of a reward for having to be at sea for a while) So Woodine and I unpacked our last tenaciously lingering boxes from our move. We also started a garden on our deck. We live on the second story, so understandably our garden is in planters. Our friend the Masked Mallard did some things with square foot gardening, so we decided to make a little square foot garden of our own. Our big problem (for gardening) is that there are big trees around our deck, and it faces west. Though not as bad as facing north, we get limited sunlight. Our solution was to put wheels on the bottom of the planter to we can move it around to the sunny spot as the day progresses.

We also determined that hanging plants on the southwest corner would get hours more sunlight than plants sitting on our deck. So we got two tomato plants and planted them upside-down in the hanging pots and put strawberries and chives in the tops of the two pots. We also planted flowers and herbs on planters hanging from our railings. We were anxiously awaiting our seeds to sprout, and a few days ago, most of them did. We are still waiting on the carrots and herb seeds, but our lettuce and spinach are looking good. You can watch our video tour of our garden below.




Other interesting events, I met a man with the same name as my brother, man. He was in the MTC at the same time as B. He remembered seeing her there. I called B up and she confirmed the fact. He is the son of the BYU Linguistics professor with the same last name as us and he lives in a neighboring ward to us.