We haven't posted for a while, been somewhat busy with the garden. It's quite time consuming when starting from scratch and especially with the soil that we have, that's if you can call it soil as it really cannot support much except weeds and prairie grasses! Bill has been improving the soil with peat and richer garden soil, we have been out watering the plants but the dry winds certainly dry out most things pretty quickly. We have been successful with roses, rudbekia and sweet peas to name a few and we have a good display of hanging baskets and tubs. we bought a cherry tree and also an apple tree; the apple trre cam covered in tiny apples we removed most of them so as not to stress the tree but we will have half a dozen or so in September! Bill is growing beans and tomatoes but we now realise that we will need to start growing indoors and plant out once the plants are much bigger. The snow didn't really disappear from the garden until mid April and then the ground needed to thaw so all in all a very short growing season.
This second year seems to have flown by more quickly than the first year! We are trying to get out and enjoy the mountains more this summer as well as work in and around the house. Stampede came and went, good to have William and Kate as so many more folk attended Stampede this year but then the economy is picking up.
What's that Bill ... not another weed!!
