So when I started this I had really hoped that I would be writing every few days, and here it is over two months since my last post! Okay - so I am recommitting, and feel free to call me out if I am AWOL again for more than a week.
So how exactly is our garden growing? Great! (will post some pics this weekend). We have already sampled some of our cucumbers - super yummy, although not very asthetically pleasing, but no one seems to care when they are chopped up in a salad. Our tomatoes are looking good, although I have yet to try one...the ripe one's have been going missing...I will need to do a little detective work, it is either one or both of our Labrador Retriever's or a couple of bunny friends who have been frequenting our yard. The herb's are also doing well - we have sampled the parsley, basil, rosemary and chives - and it is so handy to just pop out to the backyard to get these instead of heading off to the grocery store.
I have to say my kids absolutely love "their" garden. When we have guests, my almost 4 year old insists on taking them for a garden tour and one by one names every vegetable, fruit or herb that we are growing. Every night we go out and water our garden and every couple of weeks we pull all the weeds out. My two year old hasn't quite mastered this yet - we have had to replant a few things as he thinks everything in the garden is a weed! He also thinks he should sample everything that is growing...green tomato anyone?! yuck.
I think my kids might just be starting to realize that they aren't going to find any sausages in the garden!
So hopefully I will have a pic of a nice ripe tomato this weekend or a fully grown cucumber or zucchini...fingers crossed that the dogs and bunnies don't beat me to it.
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