Then it was plantin' time.
The girls are holding up the Russian Gold potatoes for the camera before planting them.
After showing them how to plant the potatoes and flower bulbs they each picked out, 'Daddy' let the kids do it themselves.
This bed was just for the flowers. Sunflowers, Carnations, Gladiolas. ( above )
Our garden grew. I'm the 'water girl'. I love it. It gets me outside in the hot sun in the morning to warm up ( I'm always cold.) Not to mention I get to play with water!
During the first part of the summer my husband installed the irrigation system. Now I just have to turn on the switch and remember to turn it off. Whatever will I do this year with all of my free 'not watering' time??
'Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn. The cow's in the meadow, the kid's in the corn.'
Here is a bowl full of some of the produce we grew in our garden, along with a blackberry pie I was making from the wild blackberries my kids picked and brought in that evening from our yard.
A list of what we grew last year: Green onions, Bok Choy ( Chinese cabbage), broccoli, cauliflower, purple cabbage, romaine lettuce, dwarf red bell peppers, chocolate bell peppers, jalapenos, carrots, several varieties of cherry tomatoes ( which by the way made an excellent sauce ) and large tomatoes, basil, cucumbers, potatoes, corn, thyme, carrots and cantaloupe.
Noe it's almost time to do it all over again!
