Planting Our Garden

Today was the day we finally were able to plant our vegetable garden as it was not too cold or rainy or windy. We all participated in the event and got a lot accomplished in one day and are looking forward to what we are going to produce this year.

Evan and daddy planting yellow crook-neck squash

sprinkling "chicken poo" for the pole beans. The boys thought it was quite funny that we had chicken poo from a bag that we were sprinkling into the holes. They would keep telling each other to sniff it and then say "eww!"

Eli planting pole beans

Farthest back are 18 lettuce plants (butter crunch, green leaf, and romaine), then six tomato plants in five different varieties, cucumber starters and seeds on the left and squash and zucchini starts and seeds on the right. On the far left are two rows of snap peas and along the fence is 36 feet of two varieties of pole beans (green beans).

We planted not a moment too soon as two of the plants already had tomatoes growing on them!It was really fun to work in the garden today. I especially enjoyed being able to work with John as in the the past two years I have had a young baby that makes it difficult, and it was fun to be able to help in the planting process. I know the boys will enjoy harvesting the food. They are such good helpers and love to work in the garden, especially with watering!