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Spring is upon us here in the Garden State, and this year finds us busier

than ever! This weekend was the local Ag Day, and the weather is heating up!

We have a decent sized garden here in our backyard, and Farmer Dad

maintains a garden plot at a local college's Community Garden as part of their Organic

Garden Club. This year, Princess and I will have a small (10'x10') plot in our town's

Community Garden as well. It is right near the library, so pretty convenient for me. ;-)

Last night Farmer Dad and I went up to help with the "Fence Raising" and start a flower

bed around the new sign the town put in for us..it looks so official! It was great!

So many local companies have donated materials and it looks like it will be a wonderful season!

I have some photos from around our yard, although I completely forgot to bring my camera last night to the Community Garden.Have I told you our cherry trees are in full bloom?

It's Cherry Blossom Time here in our little corner of the Garden State!

We've been eating asparagus every night for dinner!

Community Garden

We're getting one in our town!!

I'm very excited. We do not have

enough space in our yard, and we are limited by our

lack of full sun. The site is near my library, and full sun.

The plots will be 10' x 10'. Not much, but full sun.

Now I really have spring fever!

The Community Garden Plot

We spent a good part of the day up at the Community Garden plot
today. It was nice to see how everything has been growing, and we picked
a bowl full of green beans to bring home for dinner.
Princess and Farmer Dad walked around to check out all the different plots
while I got some watering done. Some of them are quite pretty.
As usual we brought our umbrella and a picnic lunch.
The "garden dog" walking the perimeter.Pretty squash flower. We have corn,beans,peppers,tomatoes,eggplant
and a good variety of winter squash as well as watermelon and cantaloupe and some sunflowers.
The hot sun took it out of us though, and we did very little work outside once we got home.
We did spend a good deal of time chasing the woodchuck out of the yard.We were sad to see a dead bunny in the road near our house on our way out in the morning, it was too hot for our bunnies to be out and about today,
or at least that is what I kept telling myself while scanning the yard for them and not finding them.
We saw one bunny in the yard at dinner time...hopefully not because the dead bunny was "our bunny".
Some days we only see one..some days none. I'm hopeful they will both show up tomorrow.

Pickin' Peas

Princess and I have been picking a lot of peas.
If we are very good, we even get some inside the house
to cook gently. Most of the time we just eat them as we go.
There are a lot of fruits getting ready in our yard right now.
The squirrels removed my strawberries this year (next year they'll go in at the c.g. plot),
but we'll still have gooseberries,blackberries,raspberriesgrapes, currants and several fruit trees, like this pear,and plums,cherries,and a fig
This weekend was busy with working in our garden here at home,
and doing a bit more planting up at our community garden plot.
Ok, we tried to make some shade with a rain umbrella from
the back of my truck, and complained about all the heat and humidity,
while Farmer Dad planted and weeded and spread compost up at
the community garden plot.It was a beautiful day at the community garden
and all the plots look active and well maintained. Our plants are doing well there,
having full sun makes such a nice difference.You can see all the shade on our garden plot
at home and the time difference was about half an hour between shots.
This is our second year being involved in the community garden, and our first of really
making a plot of our own. We are actually sharing a plot this year as well, next year we made need
an entire plot for ourselves.