Gardening preparations...

For the past month or more, I have been getting really excited about the garden and have been contemplating and planning what we'll plant this year.  Mat and I have also been on the search for compost (mushroom, cow, horse) to add to our clay garden.  We found it yesterday.  Sara told Mat about a spring melee that Mountin' Hopes was having on Saturday.  For a donation they will give you composted horse manure.  Since we are heading to the beach on Saturday, I called to see if we could get some in advance.  They were very accommodating and said we'd be more than welcome to come shovel some manure early.  (On Saturday, there will be a machine loading your pickup.)



So we spent some time out shovelling manure into the pickup and brought it home to our garden.  When we return from the beach, we will till the manure in and then we just have to wait until the last frost date (mid-May) and we can plant up our garden.  Yay!  (We do have peas, spinach and mesclun mix planted all ready.)



Yesterday, Mat also spent some time chainsawing out a hole in the stump that we have in our yard to turn it into a planter.  It was a dead tree we chopped down last year.  So I am perusing container gardening materials to determine what will be the best plants to plant in there.   We are getting excited for spring to be here fully!  The Bradford Pear and Cherry trees are blooming right now and they are beautiful.