Is it summer yet?

Today we had a beautiful day! I think that the end of spring and maybe even summer might be here! The PNW has had an unusually long winter this year. We were still snowing in April and it rained more days in May than what it should have.

We had been putting off our garden since it was still cold out and were supposed to plant it last week but my little tumble from Gryphon kept me inside nursing my wounds for a week. Today Josh finished the fencing in the backyard and fenced around the garden itself. The kids and I planted our seeds and put our started seedlings in the ground too.

Gnomeo, the garden gnome

 
When we did our theme of food a few months ago we researched how to plant a garden and decided to do companion planting. Companion gardening allows you to plant certain plants together that either help each other grow or they repel certain pests so it will allow us to grow our veggies totally organic without using pesticides.

In a month or two we will *hopefully* have fresh organic pumpkins, cucumbers, carrots, cabbage, camomile spinach, rosemary, onions swiss chard, tomatoes and basil in the back, then green peppers, parsley, snowpeas, radish, beets, garlic, broccoli, strawberries, dill and cilantro :)

Brody and Gryphon enjoying the sun and grass