I miss my parents!!! They know exactly what to do in a garden. Tim and I are bumbling along trying to do our best. I probably called Dad ten times this weekend with questions. Each time I’ve had a property to garden truly…Dad has been there with me. Mom has helped me with plants/zones and design. Dad has been there for the hard grunt work with me!

Oh well, Tim and I tried to work amidst three children this weekend on the garden. That’s all we did. Well, Rohan went to swimming lessons today and they both had gymnastics yesterday but other than that, it was a gardening weekend. Plus poor Tim was on pager duty so we didn’t get as much done as we would have liked.

We ended up at Home Depot yesterday afternoon because we didn’t really have any gardening tools. Not much use for them in Yellowknife! I have to say, I’m a bit of a menace with the shears. I just went crazy with them. I don’t really know how to prune to make it look pretty so one of our poor lilac bushes had a bit of a hack job done to it.

So, Tim began the weekend with the job of trying to rototill our grub-infested lawn. It didn’t actually happen until this evening due to a rototiller malfunction. So, hopefully, we’ll seed it tomorrow and have some grass growing soon! I’ve added before/after photos.

I spent my time on our back deck area today. Front entrance yesterday although I’m not finished with that. I have way more weeding to do. I was trying to work in the shade today so decided to complete the back before moving to the front later this week.

Before

After

Edzea was actually a good helper. She wants to plant plant plant!! We picked up a couple of strawberry plants for our barrel for the kids.

Our side veggie plot is going to be filled with fun things for the kids to watch grow. All we have in there at present is a raspberry plant. We will pick up some other things this week to put in daily. They picked up seeds for sunflowers while they were renting the rototiller. Edzea found a little brown tree frog in the plot and was very excited.

She doesn’t want to wear the little gloves that I got her because she says she loves the feel of the dirt in her hands. Rohan just wants to get his hands on the rototiller, tractor…anything with a motor. And he likes to water!

Neve was co-operative as usual. She lay in her playpen and cooed or slept most of the time while we were gardening. Thank goodness she’s so easy!!

So poor Tim just came in from finishing with the rototiller and he says his back is really sore! Off to massage him!