My Favorite Season

Hands down, my favorite season is Spring. I really really love it! Colorado is so dry and brown in the winter, that when Spring rolls around and everything starts turning green again, it just makes me feel happy.

Our house is surrounded by farms and it's so fun to see the farmers out getting their fields ready to plant. I think it would be really great to live on a farm one day... please note the "I think" part of that sentence. :)

Last year for my birthday my aunt gave me daffodils and so I planted them about a year ago and I've waited this entire time to see if the bulbs would actually produce flowers this Spring. I'm pleased to announce they sprouted a couple of weeks ago. They still don't have flowers on them and they're kind of little still, but I'm still hoping they will fully bloom!

Then last fall I bought a bag of Iris bulbs and planted them in our backyard. Since our backyard is pretty much a blank canvas I had a really hard time trying to decide where I was going to plant them. I picked a corner of the yard and just pushed a bunch of rocks to the side and dug a hole big enough to plant all 20 bulbs. I was really skeptical about these because the soil isn't very good and it just looks ghetto because it's not a pretty flowerbed. So now you can only imagine my excitement when I went to check a few weeks ago and I saw the first couple sprouts! I counted two days ago and 18 of the 20 bulbs have sprouted!!!!! I'm thrilled! My goal is at the end of Summer to removed the majority of the rocks from that back corner and rototill the soil so I can replant the bulbs and hopefully get my flowerbed looking pretty.

My next favorite thing about Spring is that it means it's almost time for me to plant the seeds in my vegetable garden!!!!!!! Last year I experimented with my Square Foot Garden and this year I have a better idea of what I want to plant and what we'll actually eat. I also want to expand my garden a little bit. Since all squash is SO easy to grow, but so big, I'd really like for the squash to have their own garden.

Here's an interesting fact you may not know. If you take a branch from a willow tree and plant it, that branch will grow into a tree. Thanks to our wonderful neighbors who have willow trees, we planted 4 trees last fall. (They actually just look like sticks in the ground, which is why we now only have 3 trees... little boys don't understand the difference between a stick in the ground and tree...) Willows are also very fast growing trees, so I'm hoping that before we move out of our house, they will actually look like real trees (not that we're planning on moving anytime soon).

I can't wait for all my flowers to start looking like flowers!!! I'll post a blog in the future when they bloom so hopefully there will be more color than the pictures posted above!