Peace, Love & Gardening

I have inherited my parents love of the great outdoors and yesterday is proof of this. My parents decided to seize the 87 degree temperatures by the horns and complete the garden that they had started the previous week. I was super excited to get to wear shorts and a t-shirt and get out play in the backyard. My joy was topped off by the fact that Mommy & Daddy not only let me help with building the box for the garden but mixing the dirt and watering the plants we had previously planted. I love playing with the hose - the water was so refreshing on such a hot day!

Do you need water in this pot too?

Getting a drink of water while searching for something new to do.

Spreading the top soil along the bottom of the box.

We need some more dirt over here Daddy!

Carrying the vermiculite down to where we were mixing the dirt with some compost & other extras recommended in the gardening book Daddy is reading.

Taking a break to cool off and get a drink.

Getting a drink from Daddy's cup of ice water.

Picking up another bag of vermiculite for Daddy.

Dropping off the vermiculite at the mixing tarp.

Helping Daddy to mix the compost and the dirt - this pile was bigger than me and we hadn't even added the peat moss, vermiculite and the other bag of compost!

Needless to say we had a very, very, very dirty afternoon! Everything including me went straight into the wash! Poor Grandma got the unlucky task of scrubbing all the dirt off of me while Mommy, Daddy and Grandaddy Doc finished up outside, put all the tools up and made dinner! Although Mommy had to get the dirt off of my clothes and shoes so maybe she got the worse end of the deal - at least Grandma got to spend quality time with me!

Peace, love & gardening,

Bailey