130 Days

We finished the last little bed this morning and now we almost have all of the gravel in. First we need to put some edging by the berry bushes. Layden likes putting the gravel in the dirt and the dirt in the gravel. Unfortunately we really do want to keep them seperate. I can't wait to see how it looks with all the plants growing in them. On this side of the state our growing season doesn't officially start until May 15th and ends a mere 130 days later. So we will be using those pipes to turn the beds into mini greenhouses. This way we might actually have something to eat before September. We are using the square foot method for squeezing as much as possible in and I have been checking out a book on companion planting which results in a very complicated planning process, especially if you allow for staggered plantings, replantings, varying sun level, plant heights, appearance, yield and climbing vegetables. That is why in the end I just kinda made it random. If everything we plant matures and does well we are going to have one heck of a lot of vegetables.
We had canned mandarin oranges last night and Layden really really likes them. He likes them so much that he just sucked them straight down with so little chewing that there was recognizable orange in his diaper. Lately I have been reading the books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series so I keep having the song "So Long, and Thank's for All the Fish" from the movie stuck in my head. Now I have it stuck in Oli's head, he he.