Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The Garden

Here is Meghan and Haley in our soon to be garden (the before picture)
Not too long after, we have the beginnings of zuchinni. . .
Some potatoes (these are so fun to plant, because all you have to do is cut up some old potatoes that have 2-3 eyes per piece that you cut, go and bury them, and in about a week and 1/2 you have plants already growing--great if you have little patience, and like to see progress quickly). These had been growing for maybe 3 weeks.
watermelons, tomatoes and strawberries. So far, we've had many strawberries ripen up, but unfortunately the birds kept getting them. We finally went and got some bird netting to cover them. It's great fun to watch the flock of birds come and sit on the fence trying to determine just how they are going to get to the strawberries. This plant is actually one of the smaller ones, but when I took this picture, the birds had already eaten several of the other RIPE strawberries, so this was the only one left.

2 wonderful thoughts:

Jenny said...

wow! what a great garden! our birds don't bother w/ our garden too much, but the bugs are horrible. what do you do for bugs?

Cardon Family said...

man you guys have been busy with that garden!! yeah for strawberries!!! I am so jealous of you that Sadie is potty trained! Go Sannette!!Only one in diapers....yeah!!