It was time to amend the garden soil.
My husband picked up a truck bed full of alpaca poo from a friend's farm – a veritable mountain of crap – then worked it into the earth of our new growing space with a tiller.
On the other side of the garden I picked the first bowl of strawberries.
A sweet reminder that, with a little hard work and some tender loving care, amazing things can be borne from huge piles of shit.
So true. : ) What a great reminder.
ReplyDeleteGeesh Tara, those are some lovely berries you have there!
ReplyDeleteI suck at strawberries!
We've done the same for our soil, um... not with alpaca poo though:)
Planted a yellow and orange peppers so far and started some raspberry bushes... which I'm hoping turn out better than our strawberry fiasco.
Thanks Dawn. Planting the garden each year is a great reminder of this important life lesson.
ReplyDeleteYour garden sounds great, Anet. We never seem to have good luck with peppers. I don't know why. I have strawberries stuck in all over the place – around the mailbox, at the tail end of the flower garden. I'm a horrible strawberry mama; it's survival of the fittest gardening around here. :-)
Your garden is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sandy. Well, at least the soil is pretty right now! It was nice to "meet" you here. Hope you stop back again sometime!
ReplyDeleteLOL! I laughed...and yet your words are so true. Crap brings strength, beauty, and sweetness.
ReplyDeleteTammy, So nice to see you here again. Glad to know we share the same sense of humor. I think of this every year as my husband preps the garden. It always rings true.
ReplyDelete:) I always read your posts...I'm just slow with my comments, lol.
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