The Winner is....

So this is it...a hand sewn gardener's apron, or if you don't garden you can use it for just about anything, from cafts to cooking. It has three large pockets and two thin pockets for scissors and or pencils. There are four yo-yo flowers, one on the end of each tie, and two in front

I wrote all eight names on paper...

put them a straw hat...

let AbbyYah toss them about...

And she picked a name...

Ahavah is the winner for this weeks drawing!

Congradulations

Ahavah!

First Year Blogging Give Away

OK, this is a post from March 30 and the gift is associated with this blog...the give away has officially begun...start your comments and guessing! Alright, so today we worked the soil. My dm was already digging out the weeds when we arrived. The complex we live in has no place for a garden, so my dm has a fenced in area at her home that she has aloud us to use. LOL, I thought that I was going to be able to plants LOTS of veggies...after reading a few articles on planting and talking with my dh, I now realize that we can maybe plant about maybe eight different veggies, I wanted corn but corn would take up too much space...so, I think we'll be planting tomatoes, snap beans, oakra, zuccini, cucumbers, bell peppers, peppers, yellow squash and maybe eggplant.
This is love...my dh working hard, breaking up the ground. Actually he said it wasn't hard at all because the ground was soft from the rains.
here is AbbyYah, she was gathering up the dug up weeds with their roots...she said it wasn't much fun. We told her it gets better, soon we will be planting the seedlings then the fun begins
:-D




3/30/09

Found a Freebie

Abundant Harvest

Your Guide to the Home Vegetable Gardenhttp://www.allposters.com/

I found this wonderful free e-book on home gardening. I'm not sure how helpful it would be to the experienced gardener, but for this beginner it held a wealth of information.

We wanted to work in the 'garden' today, but it's cold and the ground is still too soggy...we're shooting for tomorrow

3/29/09

My new endeavor

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Ok, I grew with my mama always planting a garden, vegetable garden that is, every spring. Did I ever help her, no! Was I interested in helping her? No! Did I ever try my hand in gardening, yes,once when I was about 10yrs old. It was exciting to eat the corn that I planted but not so exciting to replant the next year, why should I? When mama did it every spring...yes, I was a self absorbed child (to my shame I admit it)

So now when I'm 40 something I find this strange desire to have my own garden, to grow my own vegetables. My mom says I'm crazy! It's hard work and to her not worth it when you can go to the store and buy what you need. That's the problem...the store! Buying who knows what kind of strange 'hybrid' vegetables...and to think of the prices of these so called vegetables. No thank you, I'll go the way of hard work, and I'm going to take my girls with me. They will learn right next to me. Well, we won't be alone in this new endeavor, my dh has volunteered to do the 'hard' work for me preparing the land (he grew up gardening every spring).

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LOL, I don't even know what you call it when you dig and turn the soil? LOL, but I'm going to learn! My girls a so excited, if the weather permits, we will start tomorrow or Monday. My girls keep saying "only one more day, then we get to start our garden" well, I let them know we won't be planting for some weeks yet, but we are preparing the soil to receive the seed. Oh, I see now all the spiritual lessons this will bring to our conversations...what joy to be able to realize what it is like to prepare the soil, sow the seed, water and wait and finally reap the harvest and enjoy the fruit of our labor...

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I believe this new endeavor will bring about more than just vegetables for me I believe Yah is getting ready to teach me some real life lessons, spiritual life lessons that is. Because I'm ignorant of the process of gardening I've put a couple of books on 'hold' at the library. Hopefully my oldest dd will let me use her camera to take pics so I can share our progress with you all....

Oh I forgot, Happy New Year to those who follow the Biblical calendar today is the New Year!