A Bit of Earth.

Jamie and I are going to plant a garden this year. We've been getting the boxes ready for about the last three months. It's been slow-going, mostly because at the place we're renting the "garden" hadn't been touched in six years. Everything was pretty overgrown, the chicken wire for the gophers had rotted out, and the wood is warped and beginning to rot. First thing, we dug up all the weeds, which was easier than I thought it'd be! Then we dug up all the dirt and mixed some compost in with it to make it really rich, and now we're in the process of stapling new chicken wire into the boxes to keep the gophers out. We're really almost finished. After that we can finish refilling the boxes and finally plant! I'm pretty excited about that. We're going to plant cucumbers, tomatoes, spices, carrots, and watermelon. Jamie is especially excited about the watermelon lol. We started the seeds in peat pots about a month and a half ago and they're getting to be sturdy little things! I call them his babies haha. I tried to start some of my own - cucumbers, but a mouse ate the stalks down to the soil :( So I've decided to just buy some seedlings and start from there. The rest will grow from seeds sown into the garden.

Ya know, I've heard people say that gardening is a kind of therapy for them, and I believed them, but never experienced it firsthand until now. There's something about creating something with my hands and working in the soil that really refreshes me. The sun is nice too. (I'm getting a tan!) I've definitely noticed a change in my moods since I started. I don't feel as melancholy anymore, which may be because of a variety of things, but the garden has definitely helped. Also, it really buoys me up to have Jamie working with me on a project. It's really impressive how easily he shovels pounds and pounds of dirt haha. There's just something about seeing my man at work that really tickles me pink lol. Makes me really glad he's mine.