Veggies!!

Back in March, Isaac and I tackled our first nap time project…raised garden beds. We made three of them in less than 2 hours.

The next weekend Daddy helped us move the boxes to the backyard and fill them with dirt. As you can see, we had all the help we could handle with this part of the project!

A week after that we headed to Lowes where we bought all kinds of plants and seeds to go in the garden. I may have gotten a little carried away with all we bought, but I couldn’t seem to tell my cute little helper “no” when it came to the plants he wanted. We ended up with: Box 1 – cucumbers, beans, 4 tomato plant varieties and zucchini; Box 2 – squash, leaf lettuce, green & yellow peppers, radishes, beets, head lettuce and one strawberry; Box 3 – asparagus, red onions, brussel sprouts, carrots; One barrel of potatoes; one patch of corn in the regular old ground. I told you….we got carried away.

Now two months later, our garden has grown huge!

Our little experiment, string beans in a pallet. So far it seems to be working well.

Some of my favorite childhood memories are summer days spent in my neighbor/adopted grandpa Ralph’s garden eating strawberries and beans right off the vine.  Now, Isaac and Lucas will both stand and eat right out of our garden. It warms my heart to watch them enjoy the fresh veggies and making memories like the ones that I have! So far we’ve enjoyed asparagus, lettuce and radishes. Isaac even got to try one of his little carrots yesterday.

It should be a summer packed with fun and lots of fresh veggies. Just another way we’ve turned our backyard into our own little farm!