And then there was green...

I guess it is a good thing when life is so busy you don't have time to blog about it. And in the case of the garden it would be a full time job trying to keep up with all that has happened this year. As a quick run down here are some of the exciting things:

• fresh compost arrived to top up everyone's beds this spring;
• new ornamental beds were carved out and planted (they look fantastic);
• a raspberry bed also made its way into the garden, let hope for some berries;
• we were lucky enough to be able to capitalize on the City of Calgary's Neighborwoods Program and now have some fantastic tree groves (I can see stretching out in the shade reading a book in a few years);
• our compost bin was relocated and stirred;
• we have a wonderful new shed built and painted (what a world of difference);
• our centre piece was planted and continues to look amazing;
• we've had a few battles with the water system (it wouldn't be any fun without challenges);
• and last but not least the veggies are prolific, I know I am seeing considerable improvement from last year.

I haven't been able to get many pictures (included a few below) but it has been great seeing so many fellow gardeners tending their plots. Looking forward to running into you while trying to keep the lettuce under control. I feel a bumper potatoe crop coming on.

More than a green thumb...

Sometimes it takes more than a green thumb to be a Calgary gardener, lately it's all of the time. This past weekend it took a wild imagination. As snow continues to blanket the ground trying to plan your garden is getting to be a little ridiculous. But four gardeners/snowshoers made their way to Harvest Gardens this past weekend to try and finalize the location of a perennial bed, some raspberries and some trees. This was our best guess for a perennial bed, can you picture it? Just follow the orange line, it may get lost in the snow a bit.

Perennial Bed...Can't you see it?

Not quite the lush green bed with the infusion of colour we're hoping for, but we'll see in a few months.

Hmmm...How much compost do we need to top the beds up?

It also wasn't the easiest task to figure out how much soil we need to top our beds up for this coming year. I'm sure there must be some trusty equation for frozen-snowy-dirt compaction, but I don't know it.I think we did fairly well just find the dirt.

We also started talking about a shed, but the construction combined with the snow was bringing about flashbacks from last years construction day. So after about an hour our imaginations were worn out, or perhaps frozen, as were our toes and fingers and we decided we had finalized enough for a brisk spring day.

Time to trudge home.