For those of you that missed The Garden – Part 1 you need to go and read it to fully understand this story.
After I spent a long time getting the garden area ready last week to plant seeds I had my neighbor (aka Nanny McPurse) come over and look at it. When Nanny McPurse is not caring for my children while I am in school she is an expert gardener and a landscape designer. So, she drew up two different plans for my garden area. The first set is for the whole area and the second set is for what should be planted right now or the “spring” section.
Design for spring section of garden
On Sunday morning after a nice breakfast made by the husband (which included him teaching me the “proper” way to open a package of bacon and me making the perfect mimosa); I sent the husband, the monkey, and Nanny McPurse to Home Depot to buy soil and seeds to get the first part of the garden started. While they were at Home Depot, I got started on the harder part of gardening: toiling over a game of Scrabble and keeping an eye on the little monster.
About an hour later (about time, what took so long?) they returned home and got started working the dirt. Each person had their own shovel or raking device that I assigned them and the little monster had her bucket for dirt. Now that the delegation process was finished, I sat down inside on the computer and started my Internet exploring.
After about a half hour I decided it was probably time for me to resume my supervising of the garden activities so I set foot outside equipped with my camera.
The husband, Nanny McPurse, and the monkey were hard at work (as ordered) shoveling and raking the dirt while the little monster played in the background.
Working as ordered
Onions were laid out and planted in the ground.
Planting the onions
Seeds were sprinkled into their respective areas.
Sprinkling the seeds
Dirt was moved around and everything was patted down to ensure optimal growth.
Patted down and ready to grow
Water was turned on and adjusted to hit the right spots.
Watering the right spots
The spring garden is now planted and it sure took a lot of time and effort on my part yet again. Gardening sure is a freaking chore.
I think I should partake in nap time with the kids.
My favorite activity
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Twitter: elenawollborg
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I was laughing hysterically through this post. I love that you are bossy bosserson in the garden and surfing the Internet while everyone is hard at work. Totally the way I roll as well. Ok, when you put Crazy Monkey on a plane to come and clean my house while I’m sleeping, throw your husband in there too. I love that garden wall so much! Cheers to good growth in the garden!
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I can’t believe I was actually able to convince Nanny McPurse to come over and work in the garden while I did nothing. I’m not sure how long I can continue to have people work in the garden for me but I will do my best to make it last.
I think I might have to send all of us over there. My husband can work on a garden wall, the kids can clean, and we can go enjoy martinis.
That garden is going to be amazing all summer! Lucky family!
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If I can get other people to continue to work in the garden it will be amazing!
Twitter: mommysparadise
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You did a great job, I mean putting your crew to work, your supervision was surely a very difficult task and writing a funny post. I like it.
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Thank you for acknowledging my efforts. I did put in a lot of hard work.
I love how responsive your minions are to your orders…and the amount of open space you have for a garden. Can’t wait to see it grow, grow, grow!
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So far the minions have been following orders. Hopefully they can keep it up.
omg, you have it so made over there the way you order everyone around! You definitely deserved a nap for all that ordering around you did!
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Ok, it’s really bugging me how I said ordering around twice in one comment. So I thought I’d follow up with one more. I prefer things in 3′s, you see.
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I did my best to order everyone around, I am good at ordering people and but they don’t always listen to my orders.
I got 3 in one comment
Twitter: amyeatlivelaugh
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First off, I want a Nanny McPurse as a next-door-neighbor!!
I can’t wait to see how it all progresses!
Nanny McPurse is awesome and the kids love her! Everyone should really have a Nanny McPurse neighbor it makes things much easier.
Uh oh…the bacon incident was revisited. But where were the mimosas?
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I can’t believe I left out the mimosas I made. I swear I had that in there. I’m going back now to add it.
Twitter: MamaWantsThis
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Delegation is hard work!
Can’t wait to see when everything grows!
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It is exhausting ordering everyone around.
I think I recall as a kid that you were the hard worker of the family when it came to outside chores. Glad to see you work more like me now!
I’m just trying to put my management skills I learned in college to good use.
Twitter: averagsupermom
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That’s exactly what I was going to say. You are just applying your hard earned Business Administration skills to a real-world situation. Totally legitimate.
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I’ve spent a lot of time and money on my business degree so I have to put it to use somewhere
Awesome! Can’t wait to see your garden grow.
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I just need to find someone to remember to water the garden everyday so it can grow.
Man, jealous. I wish I had a nice big garden. My daughter and I planted some red pepper seeds in a pot in our window. They have actually sprouted! Craziness, I can’t wait to eat miniature peppers.
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The last two years I grew peppers in pots. They always grew well. I wish you luck with your mini peppers.
Anything that makes kids sleep like that is a good thing!
No kidding. My oldest rarely naps so that was a big deal around here.
Hey, everyone needs a good supervisor.
Love the picture of the girls sleeping… This is my favorite activity too.
Garden is coming right along.
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Have to put my managment degree to use somehow.
Sleeping kids are always great and it’s even better when I get to join them.
Dude, I don’t care who did the gardening – I’m impressed you have a freakin’ spring garden with real, honest-to-goodness things you can EAT! Because I am all about eating.
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Right now I just have some seeds in the ground. Hopefully something actually grows because I’m all about eating too. I wonder if I could grow chocolate…
It is going to be such fun to watch things grow.
My oldest loves watching the seeds sprout. I’m hoping the little one doesn’t try to pull them all up.
Love this! I’ve been wanting to plant a garden and need to get it started. I want to get everyone involved too! Hoping this will help my boys become better eaters
Gardening is fun when you get the whole family involved. I’m hoping it will get my kids to eat better too, right now they are anti-vegetables.
Nice job delegating the garden work to everyone else, you have excellent business management skills! My dad plants my vegetable garden every year and he helps me to maintain it. Fresh tomatoes are the best!
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I figured I should put my business management degree to use somehow.
What a nice dad to help you with your garden.
Looks very ambitious! Makes my effort to patch up the lawn look pretty pathetic!
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If you saw the other half of my yard (full of foot tall weeds) you would be proud of your lawn patch.
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Yay for delegation! And Naps!
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Yeah. I’m not one for gardening either. Though I have recently gotton some sort of weird satisfaction out of pulling dollar weed roots out of our beds this season??…Who knows. Hubs could cement the entire yard and I wouldn’t care.
If you enjoy pulling weeds you can come over to my house anytime. The rest of my backyard is filled with them.