Blackberries, Strawberries and Asparagus

The other thing I have been working on is the garden/backyard. There are way too many projects and not enough time or money. So I am doing what I can little by little. So, two weeks ago Davis spent many hours tilling a large area for the garden. He scheduled to have dirt/mulch delivered only to get 3-4 inches of snow.
Discouraged, we waited it out. FINALLY it was dry enough to get the dirt, it was delivered late in the day last Wednesday.....Davis was scheduled to fly out the next morning. So we shoveled and moved dirt until it was way past dark. It didn't all get done and hopefully we will get to it today almost a week later.

But on a side note. I had my brother come over on Saturday and till an area south of the garden for me. Over an hour, 5 wheelbarrows of dirt/mulch and many rocks later, we were done.

OH SO PRETTY

This is a monster rock got out, I should've put Bennett next to it.

So this morning I called my awesome neighbor Krista and headed to her house. She told me to come and get some blackberry bushes out of her back. Over an hour later we had 5 or 6 blackberry shoots and a TON of strawberries. While I was there she told me about a few things in her yard and I happened upon her asparagus...my kids LOVE the stuff, so we talked about it and she gave me suggestions. After putting Benno down for a nap I was off to Lowe's to get my stuff......grabbed all the kids from preschool and Tanner from a friends house, made lunch and then it was time to work on the "little patch of love"!!! Two and a half hours later we have this beauty.

This is the left side, notice the rocks in the back. That is putting the many rucks in our yard to good use.

FUN!!!!! I know for sure the asparagus won't come up this year and most likely we won't get much from the blackberries or strawberries this year. My only goal right now it to not have everything die!!!!! I want to go buy some pavers to contain it all, I hear the strawberries and blackberries go crazy if not contained....let's hope!!!!!! Maybe in a few years I'll have fabulous balckberries and strawberries to share.

More to come, we got a bid on buring the tramp...we'll see if that gets done this year and my parents are giving us their firepit, I now need to clear a spot for it. I want to install it by the end of April when we have the youth in our ward over for a fireside, how fun would that be?!?!?!? We'll see if it happens.