My Fairy Garden

I'm not exactly sure how I got the idea to do this.. I think it was from seeing the small bird houses online somewhere.  It's not done yet, but  finally got it outside.

I bought the bird houses at AC Moore & painted them myself.

I will be adding more.

No Beach day

I didn't make it to the beach today, but that doesn't mean I don't have pictures for you!

First, some pendants I'm working on.  They still need a little work before I list them. 

Pretty clouds

 

And my sort of Square Foot garden. I planted some broccoli, onions & cabbage today.  I need to get some mulch once the plants get a little bigger. 

Cucumbers & beans

Umm Onions. LOL  Peppers & Tomatoes are in the background

Beans, broccoli, carrots & cabbage

More of the same oh except my 1 celery plant on the bottom right.
Totally a Pinterest project. Cut the bottom off a stalk of celery & put it in a cup of water and watch it start growing in just a few days!  I had 2 but one died when we put the plants out before planting them. 

And because I know you're SO interested, some of the ones in pots & homemade pots. 

(ie we had too many baby plants to plant in the garden and I hated to throw them out)

As long as it's nice, tomorrow will be a beach day.

Happy Easter & the letter G

I know I was supposed to post this yesterday, but I was tired.  We did a LOT yesterday.  Including planting seeds for our Garden!

10+ years ago when we were looking for a house, one of the things that attract4ed us to this house was the big backyard.  We have 2 sons and pictured them playing baseball or football and whatnot in this HUGE space. (that's my sister in law Jen)

Yeah, they ignored it.  Well they do use it occasionally, but not like we pictured.  I've planted vegetables here and there but never really kept up with it. 

This year we've decided (ok, I did) that because of the every rising price of gas & groceries, it's time to take advantage of this big backyard that really doesn't look much different then 10 years ago!

 So yesterday we gathered the dirt & seeds and some homemade seed starter containers and got to work!

So far we have 3 varieties of tomatoes, celery, cucumbers, carrots, onions and peppers. I think I want to add strawberries to the mix too.

 

Once Mother's day comes, all of these will be transplanted to the yard in garden areas.  Then we'll also plants the things that don't need to be started inside like corn, pumpkins, watermelon, cantaloupe and other things I'm sure!

In the mean time we need to get the soil ready.  Living down the shore leaves us with a very sandy soil.  Thankfully thejerseyshoredad has a truck because I think we're going to need a few truck loads of horse and cow manure!  Fun times!

I'm sure I'll post more pictures as things progress!

So that is my G post!  But before I leave you to go celebrate Easter with family, here is the Peep bouquet I made. 

 

They're watching you.