One chore that has been long neglected was any sort of gardening or yard clean up. Usually starting in March, I will slowly get my flower beds and garden boxes cleaned out and ready for the first planting of the season. Being that I was unable to do the work that the yard needed we are playing a crazy game of catch up. I plant my cool weather vegetables the first of April and nothing is ready right now for a seed!
On Monday night our family sets aside time for Family Home Evening, we do a variety of things, sometimes it is a religious lesson, or a board game, or I will read out loud. Yesterday, it was some intense gardening, I needed 4 garden boxes prepared for planting and a flower bed needed to be taken down and some perennials moved so our driveway can be expanded to accommodate that beast of a vehicle I drive around.
So my gardening chores, while they have always been some what of a family affair, became a very intense family affair, with my older girls doing some heavy shoveling and lifting.
Punk #2 is shoveling compost out of the pile into buckets that #1 is hauling to the garden boxes. It doesn’t look super hard, but that compost is very compact after sitting all winter and cooking, this is the first time this season that it has been opened and turned. I am happy to say there are tons of red worms. This is my little slice of black gold heaven in my own yard.
The three little ones are plucking some tiny weeds and old veggies out of the garden box so I can turn the fresh compost into the exesting soil.
We also got four daylilies dug, split and moved to their new home, rocks moved, and two fruit trees pruned. We go a lot done in an hour and a half, thanks to the hard work of my kids and Dadzoo.
We also got four daylilies dug, split and moved to their new home, rocks moved, and two fruit trees pruned. We go a lot done in an hour and a half, thanks to the hard work of my kids and Dadzoo.
Honestly, this is one of my favorite things to do with my family! It just feels good to be working hard together, accomplishing something that will continue to benefit everyone the rest of the year. We need to do our boxes this week too.
I love it.