Mother's Day = Gardening

Happy (one day late) Mother's Day to all the Mommy's out there!

For Mother's Day this year, I asked Dale to build me a nice raised garden bed to grow some veggies with the kids. While he ran out for supplies, the kids and I started to work. I started digging up the sod and put the kids on "worm saving patrol"

Of course, after all that hard work, we needed to have some cookies

Dale did an AWESOME job! The box is about 10ft x 2.5ft and about 12 inches deep made from composite material so no maintenance. We plan to plant peas, carrots and radish seeds and I bought some artichokes, and a watermelon from the garden centre. I still need a tomato plant and a few others, but it's too cold yet for that..... First we need some dirt.......

The rest of my garden is coming along and I planted a couple of containers today... and did my usual herb container, but with a couple of new herbs... Curry, for instance.

Herb Garden: Oregano (3 types), Curry, Dill, Lemon Balm, Mint and probably a couple of others that I can't remember... I'm going to plant Basil, Thyme and a few others at the next go round....	My Garden Centre Purchases. I have a mainly perennial garden and didn't need many plants this year. Plus I went early and the garden centre was not yet, fully stocked... I still have a couple of pots to fill....
Front Flower pot: Some Purple Grass and Dark, Dark, Dark purple, almost black petunias.....	I  like this cluster of pots.... I thought about getting Dale to re-do the chairs, but I like them the way they are... so we'll just protect them and be done

Crocuses... I planted about 500 bulbs (not just croci, but lots of other bulbs as well) two years ago and lots about 300 of them last year when Dale put in underground sprinklers (I'm too happy about the sprinklers to be upset about the bulbs), but the ones that survived are coming in nicely.... and multiplying...... this bundle of croci was only one or two flowers last year

Once the rest of the flower garden starts growing better, I'll take more pictures.... right now things are just starting to peek (other than the bulbs and a few hardy souls).... It's going to be pretty this year, I think.......