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The prophet said to plant a garden, so that's what we'll do!

As the snow melted we were able to see our backyard come to life! We had no idea what to expect - the surprize of buying a home in the winter! We knew we wanted to plant a garden, but WHERE was the question. Behind the garage would be ideal, but a large fir tree blocked any of the sun's rays from hitting the perfect garden spot. Mark was totally rearing to cut it down - so the adventure began!

The tree BEFORE

We cut off most of the branches of the tree before we CHOPPED IT DOWN!

Mark and his tree...CUT CUT TIMBER!

The garden spot had a massive hole in the middle, where the previous tenant wanted to make a fish pond or something, but that never happened...and the hole remained. Mark and his dad weeded the area and Mark filled in the hole with sand from our "sand pit" (AKA ice rink spot, but just like the fish pond, it never happened..sand anyone?). We covered the garden with more sand and roto-tilled it then covered it with 72 wheelbarrows full (we counted) of topsoil.

The garden pre topsoil

Once we added the topsoil and had help from a garden expert, we finished planting our garden! We cannot wait for the "vegetables" of our labors!