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Today is my first day back to the full time grind following a couple of weeks off after our son was born. I wasn't ready to leave, but I was anxious to get back into a normal rhythm of the real world rather than the stay at home fantasy world I started to pretend was my new reality. Today may be Tuesday, but it's "Monday" for most people after the holiday, so I feel like it is "Super Monday" after so much time off.
Needless to say, this is not how I wanted my Super Monday to start...
Ah, c'est la vie, am I right, guys?
Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, and it feels like it. We're already trying to figure out how to survive in our sweltering home that seems incredibly inefficient (or maybe it's the central air unit that needs to be replaced, all I know is that it's barely touched 90 outside and it felt not so comfy indoors already).
Besides sweating and trying to help our daughter adjust to life with the baby, we finally got our garden going for the year.
This year we are trying square foot gardening. We had a couple of boxes put together (thanks to my brother), my little gal and I filled them with dirt, and then she and her mother planted a variety of vegetable starts and seeds we bought from the Ansonia FFA Greenhouse.
I'm curious as to how many others grow a garden each year? We have tried several years in the past, but typically end up not able to spend enough time and attention on it or get too ambitious with how much we put out. This year with the garden boxes, weeds should theoretically be at a minimum, and we've planted only what we think we can handle while chasing a toddler and taking care of an infant this summer.
What sorts of things do you grow? How long did it take you to get the hang of gardening or add it to your normal routine of things to upkeep around your home? Write a comment below (or share a photo of your own garden).