Two Years Later....

Okay

There is too much going on around Forest Springs for us not to share!

This is our first year to have a "real" garden and it has been so much fun!

Here are a few pictures that I have been taking over the past few weeks:

This one was taken about 1 month ago. You can see the tiny lettuce plants just beginning to come up. At the very end of the garden, you can see our two blueberry bushes (I have them covered up with netting to keep the birds from eating all of the berries).

This one is really dark! The lettuce is getting bigger. The little green plants to the right of the lettuce are pumpkins.

This one was taken this evening. The pumpkins are going crazy. To the right of the pumpkins are cucumbers and a few herbs (basil, mint, and marjoram). How do you like our "tent" that we made for the runner beans? Cute, huh? That was Farmer B's creation. We took the kids (M1 and M2) into the woods last week and cut down a few saplings for the frame. I had to laugh because M2 thought she was going to die from the humidity before we made it back to "civilization." Does that mean that she spends too much time in an air-conditioned house?

The deer are sniffing around our blackberry patch and I am going to have to devise a plan for keeping them at bay. I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that we could pick over 50 gallons of blackberries if the deer don't get them first!

Hopefully, Farmer B will be able to build a chicken coop by summer's end so that we can have chickens. Really, the sooner the better, although my neighbor told me that she has lost three hens this week due to chicken hawks in our area. Bozo (our dog) is going to have to earn his keep and learn to protect chickens, I think.

(This is just a random picture I found. Isn't it cute?)

Not to mention, we have a bee hive--full of bees, I might add--on standby just waiting for us to bring it home!

This promises to be a fun summer! We are having a blast. We hope that you will join in our adventure as we journey into the "wilds" of country living!