Going GREEN...I hope.

Because of all the moving around, Jason and I have only planted 1 garden, in our married life. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it.) That 1 garden was actually motivated by Jason's brother, who was living with us at the time. We didn't spend a lot of time weeding and tending and accidentally over-watered it. Everything turned out yucky and squishy. The corn looked deformed and fungi-like. Not appealing at all!
With the Larsen's getting ready to move, they offered us their garden box. We accepted and were assured that using the garden box and sprinkler system (designed by Ryan) that we would have an edible crop by harvest time. We were excited about the possibilities. ---By the way, this little garden box, built by Ryan, is awesome! It's off the ground (no leaning over and less weeds), it drains it's self and the PVC mist sprinklers have an automatic timer. So the garden is not over-watered. Thanks Ryan. We LOVE it!

So for FHE, on Monday, we went to Lowes and picked out several plant starters and a few seeds. Then we planted them the next day. It was an awesome sunny day...we haven't had another one like it since.



Taylee made some garden stakes to help us know where we planted the potatoes, carrots and cantaloupe.









Abree...




and Kyrick "helped" by jumping on the trampoline.













Treyson was very interested in the process and could hardly keep his hands out of the dirt.










Taylee was also very interested in planting. She liked helping to plant the sweet peas.










Rylee, tired from running in PE and track hung out a little, but mostly watched.








The "helpers"






The finished product or should I say the beginning of our GREEN adventure.






In all, we planted tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, romaine lettuce, spinach, strawberries, bell peppers, sweet peas and cantaloupe. We didn't follow the spacing guidelines very closely. We'll see if they are absolutely necessary. Wish us luck!