More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.
~Marion Zimmer Bradley
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart, and bring forth a flower. ~Shigenori Kameoka
The creation of a thousand forests is is one acorn. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether you tend a garden or not, you are the gardener of your own being, the seed of your destiny. ~the Findhorn community
After some serious planning and some light construction by the hubby, we were ready to put in our garden today. We have three new beds, built in the square foot gardening style and are using two of our existing beds for crops that take up more room like squash and corn.
I'll spare you the ugliness of the unweeded, unmowed mess that it was earlier in the week and just post the pretty pictures. The pretty ones consisting of Hannah helping out. She really loves it and (mostly) helped me plant almost everything with me only needing to go behind her a few times and fix things.
Here she is putting in some patty-pan squash...
Adding some compost tea to the mix. Notice she is one colorful, stylish gardener!
Then you have to water it all down...
Here's a look at the new beds:
And the whole garden area (please excuse our yellow withered grass and the dog paths. It is a hot, dry spring here in New Mexico and we are -- as always -- trying not to deplete our well so we can mow our lawn more often. We live in the Southwest and we are at peace with that):
Is that even a word?
I had a little time at sunset tonight so I risked my life (yes, I am allergic to bee stings) to take some photos of the apple blossoms. Lots of them this year, and late enough in the season to avoid snow, I hope!
Hannah, of course, had her own "flowers" that she wanted to share:
The Stemless Evening Primrose grows wild in our yard:
These Grape Hyacinths wandered over from the neighbors house, I think:
And some succulents that grow in a particularly sunny spot in our yard:
Yes it was a beautiful day for the ole macro lens today!
