Spiders,Snakes, and Garden School

 

We are in the middle of garden school. Garden school is a week or two weeks each year before things start growing again in which we prepare the garden, clean up the yard, and generally try to fix things, clean things, and weed things to prepare for spring planting and to have a cleaner nicer yard. We have completed one week. We've cleaned up a lot of garbage, mowed down a lot more space in the overgrown part of the yard, weeded last year's garden, gotten some spiky weeds out of our large wisteria bush. and worked on building a bunny hutch. We still have to finish building the bunny hutch, repair the deck, dig up more garden space, get some seeds planted both in pots as starts and some in the garden for cold harvest plants, and plant the 11 fruit trees that we bought. In the middle of all of this schooling, we've found a dead snake and a giant spider. The giant spider, we found in the woods where we are digging up leaf compost and the snake was in the overgrown section of the yard that we have always called snake and spider soup. 

Garden school is a lot of hard work and it teaches the kids to appreciate their academics a little more. But it is also an enjoyable time to be outdoors before the heat and humidity of the summer hits.