Garden

Neal and I attempted a real garden this year.  It was our first attempt.  Of course we had a lot of help from the Pepster (have I mentioned how wonderful my daddy is).  He came up and tilled the ground for us and bought me some fertilizer when I told him I didn't know that I was suppose to put fertilizer on my plants.  He wasn't very impressed with that.  Anywho, I have to admit that after planting we were pretty lazy and didn't weed it.  I didn't want to do all that work in the hot sun and it not produce anything.  Turns out it did produce... a lot.  So then we  Neal  had to go out and do some major weeding.  It was not for the faint of heart. So here is some pics of our beautiful garden.  I feel like a proud mama.  I also want proof that we did have a garden because it may never happen again.

We have lots of tomatoes.  I planted a lot because my parents always have a hard time with them so I thought we would have a hard time.  But I think every plant I planted produced.

We have some melons.  Love, love them.

 We have seven strawberry plants.  Unfortunately, the birds love them and what they don't get Ally does.

We have about five plants of summer squash.  The have produced so much I think I'm actually burnt out.  I never thought that would happen.  And then the bugs killed our squash plants.  Seems I didn't know I was suppose to spray for bugs either.  Go figure.

And we got lots of Charles Allen's favorite food.  Watermelon.  He told his dad that he would never eat candy again as long as he had watermelon.  It's a nice thought, but I so don't believe him.

Tending the Garden

Our little garden is growing. Lovey is our farm girl. She loves the garden and it's a wonder anything will grow because she can't master the concept of not walking inside the walls.

I don't know who is worse, the birds or Ally, they both are always eating our strawberries. They can't be good because they're not ripe, but it doesn't seem to bother Ally.

I can't even imagine what she does in there all the time.

Our First Garden

Neal and I have never planted a garden before, but we thought it would be a fun and exciting project for the kids to try. My parents usually have a huge garden and it is soo much work. I'm not interested in that right now. Maybe later when the kids are older and they're not so much work. But for now we're going to try a small one. I don't have high hopes seeing as how we've never done it and I planted 80 tulip bulbs in this same spot last fall and only one came up. Not to mention that our kids have no concept of not stepping on the plants. As you can see Charles-Allen is almost standing on Emmy's mint plant while posing for the picture. She would totally have a fit.

Even though it might not produce anything they kids love watering it and even getting the weeds out. Our strawberry plants did have some little red strawberries on it, but Charles-Allen picked them this morning. We also have squash, tomatoes, mint, watermelon and later we're going to plant pumpkins and sunflowers. It should be fun.

On a different note I was going to try to take a picture of the beautiful robin's eggs that are in our birdhouse, but when I opened it up the mama was in there. It nearly scared me to death. She has never been in there before so I wan't expecting her. She must be getting ready for her babies to hatch. She has 5 eggs and they are so pretty. Last year a robin, I don't know if it was the same one or not, had 4 or 5 different sets of babies in here. I never got to see the babies, but I did see the eggs. My kids saw the babies, but everytime I would get around to checking they would already be gone. I'm going to keep it checked this year. I don't want to miss seeing the babies again. Maybe the mama won't get me.