Summer Gardening Fun! Would you like to share a berry with me?
Nicky and his mommy have been busy since mid-May with gardening, which lately has meant weeding and waiting... although we are getting nice lettuce (bunnies, keep out!), spinach, and arugula. Our garden is modest this year in anticipation of our move, but for Nicky's mom, gardening has been much easier without the giant belly (although the crawling, rock and dirt-eating baby is also a slight challenge!).
Our strawberry patch is looking wonderful this year and the early fruits have been small but cute and bright red! We've managed to save quite a few from the slugs. The next batch looks to be much larger and more prolific.
This past week Nicky and his mom worked on the flowerbeds. We found a local greenhouse, Larchwood Farms, which has gorgeous plants at a good price, and Mommy went only *slightly* insane buying six packs of impatiens, marigolds, snapdragons, coleus, etc.... And Daddy had to lug a few bags of mulch around, to his dismay. But the gardens are looking much better (hard to go down from a scraggly weed patch!).
While we were on Long Island a couple of weeks ago, we also helped Grandma plant some of her gardens. We had a great time visiting Grandma and Grandpa, and Nicky's oldest cousin Richard was there, too! Nicky got to try ribs for the first time (beware, vegetarians):
Daddy has been really busy these days preparing for a 3 day job interview in Brazil at the beginning of July. The timing of the interview, and a subsequent conference (on Bruno's 30th birthday) is unfortunate, because most of Mommy's family will be visiting the NY area and she doesn't want to miss them.... especially before she moves. But neither does she want to miss helping Nicky's dad do his best on the interview and celebrating his 30th in style!
We will hopefully figure out a good solution. Until then... we will be enjoying our summer fruits!
Our strawberry patch is looking wonderful this year and the early fruits have been small but cute and bright red! We've managed to save quite a few from the slugs. The next batch looks to be much larger and more prolific.
This past week Nicky and his mom worked on the flowerbeds. We found a local greenhouse, Larchwood Farms, which has gorgeous plants at a good price, and Mommy went only *slightly* insane buying six packs of impatiens, marigolds, snapdragons, coleus, etc.... And Daddy had to lug a few bags of mulch around, to his dismay. But the gardens are looking much better (hard to go down from a scraggly weed patch!).
While we were on Long Island a couple of weeks ago, we also helped Grandma plant some of her gardens. We had a great time visiting Grandma and Grandpa, and Nicky's oldest cousin Richard was there, too! Nicky got to try ribs for the first time (beware, vegetarians):
Daddy has been really busy these days preparing for a 3 day job interview in Brazil at the beginning of July. The timing of the interview, and a subsequent conference (on Bruno's 30th birthday) is unfortunate, because most of Mommy's family will be visiting the NY area and she doesn't want to miss them.... especially before she moves. But neither does she want to miss helping Nicky's dad do his best on the interview and celebrating his 30th in style!
We will hopefully figure out a good solution. Until then... we will be enjoying our summer fruits!
