Our First Trip to our Local Nursery To Stock Up.

Sunday, June 1st, 2008 at 9:36 am

I didn’t think heading off to the nursery for our backyard garden supplies and a few other things would be so excited but I was like a kid in a candy store. Good thing my wife came along to control me or I would have been sleeping in the dog house for a couple of nights I am sure.

What we need and what I wanted once I got there was a completely different list, so it’s a good thing we made a list before we left.

We decided on the way there that getting flowers right now might be a bit too early and rather than taking care of them while the weather warms up we should just let the nursery keep them another week or two.

We picked up a couple of bags top soil so we can build up our raised beds and to help with the heavy clay soil we grabbed two backs of peatmoss.

I have never had strawberries or raspberries of my own but remember back to when I visited New Brunswick as a child, my granddad had enough to share with his favorite grand kid, me.

I would love to introduce them to my grand kids if my son eventually gets married and has a few. We need some to spoil a bit.

The fence that goes around the three sides of our property is covered in thick and thorny shrubs that look great in the summer but are a real pain to work with, literally. Well we want to eventually get rid of it all but that’s going to take a few years.

As we remove sections we will replace them with vines that will cover the fence but won’t attack us when we try to mow or walk past them.

We started with one section, just big enough to put in two grape vines and we will see how they do there.

Oh man are we excited this year as we have been here three years and this is the first year we are planning our backyard garden and landscaping.

We use eBay to get a lot the things we want, whether for the backyard garden tools and supplies or my fishing suppies and gear. I save money so it allows me to buy more with the same amount, making it easier to stay within budget.