Roots in the ground

Once the plants are in the ground I like to think the root can go for miles and miles with all the love and care given to them and nothing to stop them but maybe a rock here and there... Grow babies Grow!

I think my sister in law said it best, that this was better then Christmas! We have been plotting and planning the garden since then end of last year... and here it was the big weekend the day to REALLY break ground and get our baby plants and seed in to their final resting places for the year! We gathered all together on Friday, this was step one moving the horse fence back. Well with about 5-7 people helping out the task didn't take as long as we had expected. Rewarding our selves we went swimming, ate pizza, had a few beers and relaxed before the hard work. The next morning we got started at our normal time.. early.. lets say about 10 am?!?! :)

First shot of the day... gathering and getting instruction.. Now keep in mind during the next 3 days we are working with 9 adults, 8 kids and sometimes up to 11 dogs!







Evelyn.. as wonderful and amazing as she is... headed up the project. She designed what the lay out of the garden would be. Evelyn was super organized and had large white envelopes separated in to sections of the garden and even subsections. Meaning she gave great instruction that in my opinion was fool proof. Dianna, Evelyn's 21 yr old daughter and I teamed up.. Let's call us team blue. Evelyn and whom ever she works with (as versatile as she can be) will be team orange and cousin's Shana and husband Travis will be team green (for their amazing green thumbs!).. Let's give Aunt Jo and Uncle Steve the team name yellow for their amazing rays of sunshine they bring to us...  Almost for got Jake and Jeremy were floaters, alternating and helping with each team.. so let's give the floaters and team name.. team beer..

Team Yellow:

Here we have Uncle Steve working on some sort of project my dear hubby gave to him. And Mr.s wonderful herself, Aunt Jo is manning the camera for me today so she is behind this picture :)







Team Beer:

Jake (Evelyn's wonderful husband) and Jeremy (my wonderful husband) started re-tilling the garden areas we were working with for like millionth time...

Team Blue:

Dianna and I took on our first task.. Carrots and Beets! Here we are hoe-ing around.. ha ha.. been waiting on a joke with hoes! Ok enough enough.. so we planted 2 rows of carrots and 2 rows of beets in this area, followed later by a row of radishes (see, we ran out of radish room in the radish area)

And yes folks this is really me.. I am not always behind the camera.. I do get down and dirty with the girls! A lot of hard work.. but oh so much fun!







Team Orange:

Here is my beautiful SIL, Evelyn, Team orange at work! Using her super amazing powers, she is measuring out where the brussel sprouts will live...

After planting the brussel sprouts, she gave them some support by pounding in sticks by each plant.. by doing so the tops of the sticks look like flowers.. awww how precious!




Team Green:

Wow, not enough amazing things to say about these two kiddos! Shana and Travis, My husbands cousin and her husband, are here starting the daunting task of planting the peas. they went all around the front side of the front garden, planting peas along the fence. HA! Also in the picture you have our fabulous neighbor looking on and the progress and Tripp, my oldest son, waiting on his next task...

Team Orange.. remember what i said Evelyn and whom ever is working with her is team orange, started the long task of planting tomatoes. Jake is digging holes while Ev is filling them with a tomato variety..

The sprinkler system being put in and tested.. What amazing men we have married or who have join the Nordlund family.. They came up with and tested and amazing irrigation system with minimal monies for now.. :)

Well, there they are are.. the kids! all 9 of them at this point huddled together, I suppose working out the rules of a game they are playing! They work so well with each other even the little guys and gal do too!




After a wonderful start our day ran out of day light so it was time to relax.. and relax we did with a good ol' bonfire and stories!

Somehow we talked about and thought there was to be a lunar eclipse.. regardless the moon was beautiful! I was able to capture a few good pictures of the moon and I wanted to share the one I loved the most...

And then... our beautiful evening was placed on hold  as one of the 5 horses thought it would be fun to run through the electric fence.. and then the other 4 slowly joined her/him.. lol so needless to say we had some fun and laughs trying to coral the horses with our other neighbors!




Day 2:

Now on this day and the last day I was only able to help out for a little while, I had to work at my actual job :) so most of these pictures are of the garden space and of what I could get of the fam before high tailing to work...

It may be hard to see.. I tried to find an ok color to label the garden but I was having terrible luck with the photo program. Anyways, in the 3 above pictures I tried to label what I could remember of what is in the garden so far....

Team Orange:

Tripp helping Ev gather fence post for their first task...

Placing the outer fencing along the back side of the back garden..







Team Green:

Shana and Travis planting.. Beans I do believe. They did pick up an extra team mate for this project.. Emma. It was the cutest thing ever!! Emma would follow Travis like a baby duckling doing exactly what her asked her to do.. here they are placing seeds in the dirt together...

Here I believe Travis and Emma were "stomping" down the rows in between the beans, while Shana covered the actual beans...







And Finally Day 3:

Evelyn, the amazing woman she is.. finish off the planting as I yet again had to run off to work. The big boys (aka Jake and Jeremy) took the opportunity to have brother time in the middle of a lake on a boat.. fishing.  So here are the final picture that I was able to take before I yet again left :(

I will try and post a final picture that my beautiful hubby says he wants to take.. which would mean him getting on the roof and take a "big" picture.. we will see! Also, during all this gardening fun, some of the men (Travis and Jeremy) worked on cousin's van, redoing the brakes. My wonderful, Mr. Fix-it-all broke his baby finger.. I mean BROKE.. sigh good thing I know first aid.. :) and if my wonderful followers would keep Aunt Jo in their thoughts.. Even with all the amazingness she is filled with, she was bit by and deer tick and is not being treated for lime disease! We love you Aunt Jo.. PLEASE feel better soon! <3

Well I am off for now, house duties call I do plan on doing a weekly update with photo's on Monday's (pictures taken on Sunday's).. Come back and visit for the updates from our first family garden!

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