Our Green Thumb!

Greg and I had a wonderful (and productive) holiday weekend. NYC finally saw a break from the constant rain and gloom (or as some of you may know it, Seattle weather) and we had highs in the mid-80s and some humidity to boot. We spent a good part of Sunday and Monday out in the garden. We managed to get the raised bed to fit into the garden WITHOUT having to cut it down. It required a bit of digging around the fence and even chipping away at a little bit of the concrete pathway but we got it in. Another trip to Home Depot (2 trips actually) and 520 lbs of compost/soil later and the bed was ready to plant. We transplanted all of our plants and laid down some garden fabric (the black stuff you see isn't plastic) and mulch for weed control. We got done just in time for a 20 minute rain storm to blow through and water everything for us! The only negative garden event was that our next-door neighbors decided to drain their gross above ground pool and a lot of water drained into our garden which is a low point in the area. The pool flooded all our paths on the right side of the garden behind the shed. Luckily I had decided to focus mainly on the left side this year and all that is on the right side are some of Greg's gourds. We were really pleased to get the plants in the ground, a bunch more things seeded, and a lot of the beds cleaned up. Now we just have to focus on weeding and watering!

I hope you all had wonderful Memorial Days!