{"id":423,"date":"2010-04-05T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/04\/garden-season.html"},"modified":"2010-04-05T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:18:00","slug":"garden-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/04\/garden-season.html","title":{"rendered":"Garden Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hooray! The weather has finally warmed up well here, and the birds have returned! The grass is returning to a lovely green color, and the kids would rather be outside playing then cooped up in the house.<\/p>\n

With the warmer weather comes one of my favorite things, starting our family’s garden! It’s been very exciting to see what perennials are returning…about a month ago, the snow pack had melted (after about 90 days!) near my herb garden and it was great to see the parsley, chives, sage, oregano and thyme all returning for us. The hops are coming in with incredible enthusiasm, and just yesterday I saw the first peek of rhubarb!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Chives, Parsley and Hops all returning!<\/p>\n

So I have quite a challenge being such a gardening enthusiast having to move her family every 2-3 years: it seems that as soon as something gets well-established, it’s time to move on. In Florida<\/a> and North Carolina<\/a>, it was so difficult to say goodbye to gardens that were in their peak productivity in the month of July. Dave and I have made efforts in each-and-every home we’ve had to grow our own flowers and veggies. In fact, I even wrote a letter to Organic Gardening Magazine<\/a> in 2006 about it after reading about Hanscom AFB’s successful community garden.<\/p>\n

Here’s the article that spawned the letter.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was like a breath of fresh air, since typically OG magazine leans towards more, shall we say, liberal<\/i> topics. So I wrote a letter to the magazine expressing such (click on the image to zoom in):
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Anyway, this past weekend we planted our lettuce and cabbage, and sweet onion sets are waiting to go into the ground. I have tomato plants ready for my upside-down planters<\/a>, which I buy from this company here<\/a> so I can just purchase the refill sets every year. They did a wonderful job last year…they took a hit during our 16-day vacation, so hopefully I’ll manage its care better this year.<\/p>\n

It was fun hanging out at Lowe’s with Timmy last week to pick up some gardening supplies. I noticed that Ferry & Morse has quite the marketing campaign going…they’ve attached so many of the kids’ favorite characters to gardening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I get a bit camera happy when I see great-looking veggies and flowers, so I’m sure you’ll see more photos soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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