Planting time in Michigan!

Memorial Day weekend semi-officially opens the planting season in Michigan.  Cyndi and Arianna have been busy, and Adam helped too.

First we started with pulling an astonishing amount of weeds out of the garden area, tilling the soil and adding a “cobblestone” border. Then we went to our favorite greenhouse – Robson’s – to get our plants.  (I’ve given up starting from seeds. Despite good intentions, they never get started early enough, or get enough attention.) This year we planted tomatoes (beefsteak, roma and cherry varieties), jalapeno peppers, chili peppers, green beens, and broccoli.  And a few flowers.  (The tall trellis is to guard the garden from stray basketballs.)



The next weekend, Arianna and Cyndi went to help plant flowers at church.  For the last few years, Robson’s has donated a plethora of petunias to dress up the sidewalk next to our church.  This year we had 57 flats.  I didn’t even bother to figure out how many plants that is.  A lot.  Thank God it’s not hot yet!

Arianna dug holes, planted flowers, watered, and collected all the blossoms.  (Virg insists on cutting off all the flowers so the roots establish better.)