Gardening

We've been doing a lot of gardening lately. It's something I love about spring. The girls like to help too.... most of the time it's not very helpful. Our local library has the greatest children's librarian who did a story time about plants and then let the kids plant the flowers in the beds. Kenadi and Emma loved digging in the library dirt.

The librarian put Popsicle sticks into the ground where he wanted the kids to plant. Each stick had an "O" or a "Y" on it for the color of flower that goes there. I thought that was a good idea. Today Kenadi gave me a flower for mothers day that she planted in Joy school. I asked her if she knew what kind of flower it was, and she said, "a "Y"!" It was a yellow marigold.

This was our garden a couple of weeks ago. It has grown since then. We almost have ripe strawberries! We planted corn, green beans, peas, cilantro, basil, sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, and spinach.

What we DIDN'T plant is these:

Some mystery plant that has sprouted up all over the garden. I know it could be one or all of these things: Crookneck squash, zucchini, pumpkin, watermelon, cantaloupe, or cucumber. I know this because we have grown these in past years and probably have seeds in the compost pile or in the garden dirt. If I remember right, all of those VERY LARGE plants start out looking the same. About like this. We also have voluntary tomatoes from last year too. Since I've taken this picture, Randy has dug up most of the mystery plants. It was a sad day for me, because this was my chance at getting more pumpkins this year. (I had reluctantly agreed with Randy to not plant any squash or melon plants this year, just because they take up so much room) Luckily Randy has agreed to keep a few of these plants. It's kinda fun having a mystery garden!