On Saturday we were finishing our vegetable bed. Boys were putting in place ring- holders for cover. They are working together very well. I am so proud of them!

  

I transferred the rest of tomatoes and cucumbers to the bed.

My youngest planting peas.

Ready for the night.

Daytime. The white box is thermometer. My husband made it to check temperature in the stroller, when our youngest was born.

 

                                                           Have a wonderful day!

Friday 

 

                                                                         Spring.

                                                            Everything is growing.

                           I transferred some of my tomatoes to biger containers ( Just as last year).

                                                           Cody received new toy.

                                                         No school today.

   

                                                                  I baked some bread.

                                                              

 

                                                            Have a wonderful weekend!

 

Yarn Along.

 

I am re-reading Starter Vegetable Gardens by Barbara Pleasant. My husband gave it to me as a present for some occasion.

I love that book! This is where I learn about bag-gardening.

 

Did I ever tell you that I buy the same shirts and pants in multiple colors?

I do the same things with knitting. I have three of oaklet shwals  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/oaklet-shawl (well, two and one in process).

So it comes at no surprise that I knit  claret-cowl http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/claret-cowl in different color. I love it.

 

Have a wonderful knitting day!

PS: My husband told me to be brave and show you what happened after we finished with our vegetable bed.

Shower day for the puppy! We still love him.

Flower bed/Greenhouse. Stage two.

Last weekend my husband put the final hardware on the flower bed.

 We also start filling it with soil. We used one big bag of  moss, three bags of manure and 15 bags of organic top soil. Our little boy was helping too.

Here he is cutting part of tubing for greenhouse.

I took my tomatoes and cucumbers outside to help them acclimate to the sun. Please, ignore my blankets- we had 23F/-5C last couples nights.

I think tomatoes look great! I keep my fingers cross!

And the second stage  is complete!

Have a wonderful week!

A Boy and his dog.

                                                           Playing hide and seek

                                                               

What do you do when you do not have a horse?

                                                   

Yesterday I was replanting my cucumbers and the rest of the tomatoes. Some of them are quite overgrown.

I know, it is supposed to be knitting blog, but it is spring and all bets are off.

Clean table.
I replanted  Red Cherry tomatoes, Heirloom Red and Yellow tomatoes, tomatillos, all my crazy cucumbers( I think Armenian is really overgrown or it do not  have enough sun) and Chinese Lantern. I also started seedlings of Nasturtium- my mom's favorite flower.

 
This is how I grow my greens.

 

 I have two shelves with Swiss Chard, two with Sorrel, one with Kale and one with Spinach. I read about growing plants in soil bags in a gardening book. We have very strong winds in the Spring and harsh burning sun during the Summer, I hoped that the mesh screen will help.

My husband came up with the idea of the shelving system.

This is how it looked last summer. I learned many pros and cons about this system last summer, so this year choice of greens reflects last year experience.  And of course my husband wants to improve the design and build new shelves.  I think he just wants an excuse to buy more tools.

 

Have a happy gardening!

 

Yarn Along

Last week I was mostly knitting socks for my husband and for my son. I used my hand dyed yarn.

As soon as my son's socks came from my needles , he started screaming: "Where are my yellow socks? Can I wear them? "
That was my magic moment!!!!

 I was reading "A Nun in the Closet" by Dorothy Gilman.

I really want to learn Herbology.

Have a happy knitting and reading!

Spring is here!

We are very busy in our tiny backyard. I was planting these:

My husband was doing project on his own (even though if you ask him, he will insist that I made him do it). We decided to demolish our absolutely useless fountain and create vegetable bed/ greenhouse.

Talking about fountain, we never used it since we moved to this house four years ago, so it has to go!

The first stage was to remove the fountain itself. That was problem of its own, since inside this blue structure was concrete! We all helped to remove the stones from inside. After that  my husband was trying to make a hole for drainage of excess water. He tried to drill it - it did not work.

After that he rented in Home Depot this piece of equipment:

I have no idea what is it, but it worked!

 He and my youngest worked on the walls and viola! the first stage was completed!

Dog helped too.  Here he is checking out the progress. 

Hoorays for my boys!!!

Finished.  At least for today.

Have a wonderful day!