The Jones family has been hard at work outside. It is hard to believe that there was new snow at our house just a few weeks ago. Lower in the valley, flowers have already been springing out of the ground. Since this is our first spring at the house. So far there has been many surprises about what has been popping up.Since landscaping is such a large, and costly, endeavor, we have decided to do small projects to begin with. So far I have dug out the existing flower beds (what a task!) and made them wider. On the north side of the house I have planted a few shade perennials that I purchased, and elsewhere in the yard have planted divisions that a friend gave me from her own garden. Paul has been hard at work preparing a plot for our vegetable & cut flower garden. It is currently awaiting seeds and starters. We plan to grow tomatoes, peppers (bell and can't forget the spicy ones for Paul), onions, garlic, zucchini, a variety of herbs and whatever else we have room for.
We have so much lawn that we have been in search of a used riding lawn mower. We finally found one and gave our lawn its first shearing last weekend. Paul had the biggest grin on his face as he went back and forth on his "new toy" with beer in hand. It was really quite cute as you can see from the video - I couldn't stop giggling as I was taping.
Our next projects include planting our veggie garden and adding in some plants to use solely as cut flowers, continue to purchase shrubs for our borders, add a few annual flowers here and there, and most importantly...WATCH IT GROW!
