Gardening

Sometime in May we got our garden planted.  We didn’t think to take the camera with us for a number of reasons.  The biggest reason was probably the fact that we had our hands full with plants, shovels, and Rachel.  We planted tomatoes, tomatillos, zucchini, squash, and lettuce.  Rachel was such a big helper!  In this picture (cell phone because we had our hands full), you can see she is thinking about where to put this tomato plant!

A couple of days later we went out to see if anything had grown and take some pictures.  Rachel remembered that she can play in the dirt in the garden and was quick to put her hand and shovel in.  We have to tell you that the first time she put her hand in the dirt that week, she exclaimed, “YUCK!”  This didn’t stop her.  And, no, we did not teach her that dirt is yucky! 

Another reason we went out to the garden was to spread our egg shells.  Each year we save egg shells to spread around our tomato plants so that they don’t turn black.  This was a perfect activity for Rachel to help with!  We brought our cottage cheese container with us.  Yes, it is a 3-lb cottage cheese container that I ate all by myself in less than 2 weeks.  I do not normally eat cottage cheese, but have been eating it constantly during this pregnancy.  Scott and Rachel won’t touch the stuff so I am left to eat it alone. 

Rachel enjoyed spreading the egg shells and made sure to get every single tomato plant (12), as well as the tomatillos.   

After spreading egg shells, we planted our carrot and bean seeds.  Rachel made sure to study the seed packet for us so that we knew what to do with our seeds.

Rachel even planted a bean seed.  It’s the “white tic tac” in the dirt in the center of the picture.  Unfortunately, we don’t have any pictures of it past this point because it didn’t grow.  Everything else in our garden is doing well and we are just waiting to harvest now!