Tuesday, March 16, 2010

It's Time!

Doesn't Caroline look like a good worker? She is!

Here are all of my little workers...I mean children. :)
This is our first little garden project. It is right off of the back patio.
We are getting the soil ready to plant various lettuces and spinach. We hope this will be fruitful and the location will give us easy & quick access for fresh salads at mealtimes.

Caleb loves to use the tools to dig- he's a true helper this year

Joshua likes to dig too, but in a different sort of way. I think you know what I mean. He did manage to entertain himself all afternoon playing in the dirt while Caleb and Caroline finished up their schoolwork

We've got a new yard to garden in!

Well, Spring is almost here!!! Our great new yard is showing signs all over the place!
Today the kids and I bought our seeds in preparation for gardening again this year.
Stay tuned! We've begun churning up the dirt...

Friday, September 11, 2009

The end of the season...and pretty daughters

Our Sunflowers have seen their last days of glory...now they are drying out and the seeds are ready to be harvested. Caleb especially enjoyed picking out the seeds




Wednesday, September 9, 2009

A "Special" sort of harvest...

Joshua and Elisa both eyeballed some new cucumbers that were ready to be picked...
so they put on their "special"outfits...complete with glove(s). Oh my!

Joshua wanted to show Elisa all of the little bumps on the cucumber
(notice all of Elisa's outfit)


So cute!

Elisa looking for more cucumbers...

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Bountiful Harvest today

We just returned from a vacation and had lots of work to do in the garden...Caroline helped pick 6 rather large cucumbers!

People tend to tell us that we "have our hands full" when we go out in public...
well, I don't think we look quite as "full" as Caroline does here!
Either way, its a GOOD thing :)

Another season of beautiful tomatoes...we love this sight (and smell)

Caroline just picked these and she took this picture:
Caleb's pumpkin garden is doing quite well too...I think he's up to 14 pumpkins that he can hardly wait to sell

We now have raspberries coming along!

And another of 2 more cucumbers on the way:

and another green bell pepper!
I love to eat them on homemade pizza