Focht Family Blog

Once we arrived in Pennsylvania this year we decided to add a planter to our deck. It has been mostly fun but the flowers we chose only looked good when they were blooming which wasn’t very much of the summer. Here is Joshua and our neighbor Emma helping to clean up the planter before Nathan built a walkway…

Here is a picture of the front of the deck. The two bushes on the ends are blueberry bushes, the dead one in the middle is also a blueberry that I am hoping will come back next year. The ground cover is ever bearing strawberries…

I did get a few blueberries from each of my plants this year so I am really looking forward to seeing how many I get next year. Here is a close up of one of our strawberries that are out right now…

Here is a picture of the side of the deck. We planted perrenial flowers that I am going to dig up soon, blackberries, and raspberries….

A close up of one of the blackberry plants…

We had one raspberry plant that produced this year but now looks like it is dead… hmmm… hoping it will come back up next year since the berries were delicious. Here is one of the raspberry plants that is growing like a weed but hasn’t given us a berry yet….

My mom also gave Nathan a new fire ring for his birthday so here is a picture of the new fire ring…

Nathan has the cooking plate over the fire because we buy amazing fresh corn and he boils pots outside so he can fit more at a time.