After last years practice run at gardening, we are trying it again! We spend the holiday weekend (with Mike's help) turning the front yard into a gardening wonderland. (not really a wonderland, but it made it sound cooler...) We have 3 kinds of watermelon (round, long, and even one that is yellow on the inside! I cant wait to taste that one!), cantaloupe, zucchini, yellow squash, burpless cucumber (i didn't even know they burped!) so i can try to make pickles, artichoke (Ashley's favorite veggie), 3 types of corn, a thornless blackberry bush, a red grape vine, a marion berry bush, and a partridge in a pear tree... oh wait, not that last one. It took forever and I am sunburned, and every inch of my body is sore, but... we are so freakin excited! Hopefully soon we will have more food than we can eat, jar, freeze, or dehydrate... that's if the bunnies don't eat it all first... I spied some this morning and i wanted to go running after them wearing a mumu, bunny slippers, and with curlers in my hair, waiving a broom around like the crazy farmers wives do in the movies.
After we were all done i made a comment to the kids about how we now have green thumbs, and both kids looked at their hands and said they didn't have any green on them so we went into the house and grabbed some of my green nail polish and painted all of our thumbs green!
Wow! I wish I had a garden. I hope they all grow well for you. We have only been successful with our tomatoes a few years back. That was the summer that we flooded the basement. I guess we over watered the garden.....that must have been why our tomatoes grew so well. =)
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful adventure not only for the kids but for us all to watch your garden grow. We are excited for you. Love, momma & Dad
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