Sunday, April 26, 2009

Finishing planting


Mom sitting around the campfire, after roasting marshmellows. Karla and Garth helping Todd build the lid for the strawberry box.

Karla Planting Zucchini and Squash with Dad.




Raking the carrot and bean rows. "I want to help to dad!"




Karla planting her own Cherry tomatoe plant. Dad and Kylee planting tomatoe plants.

So we had a fun Saturday. Todd got to go to a gardening class. He learned a lot--that we will implement next year. In the meantime, Todd had me get a second fridge for my mom. Our hope is that she will have the space to keep her fridge cleaned out now!! Then we went and finally planted our tomatoe plants. We planted 16 in all. Todd thinks I went a bit overboard on the tomatoes, but we will see when they start producing. We let Karla and Kylee plant one tomatoe plant in their garden for them to harvest. I am hoping this saves some of our produce. But it also gave her some satisfaction. Karla loves helping in the garden. (Kylee likes it too but loses interest quickly). Karla and Kylee have their own little corner. They have planted their one tomatoe plant as well as corn, beans, peas, carrots, and who knows what else in their garden. It will be interesting to see if anything pops up. But that is where they can dig. We also got carrots, beans, zucchini, and squash in today!! All we have left is our potatoes.
We then went out to the farm and had tin foil dinners and hot dogs with Grandma Mann and Uncle Garth. And Grandma brought smores. MMMM!! And Todd built the lid for the strawberry box as well as put the caseron on the Raspberry patch. All in all, it was a good day. We came home smelling like smoke and ready for bed!

5 comments:

Dot and Jonathan said...

Cute picture, but it is really hard to read the dark gray text on the black background. Just go into your customize and change the font color and it will be better. I had to highlight the text to read it. But it sounds like you guys are having fun!! I love you big sis

Elaina said...

TOO CUTE! Looks like you've all been really busy. Looks great so far. How's it going besides gardening and all? Hope you are doing good with the pregnancy?

Dot and Jonathan said...

Much better on the text!! thanks

Cassy said...

I try.

Eric and Caralee said...

ohh, a campfire sounds so great right now! I could totally eat a plate of s'mores!