Saturday, May 16, 2015

Gardening Goddess

We embarked on getting our garden planted this week/weekend.  Over the week, Kate (and Jack) and I took an evening and weeded the garden.

Everyone gardens in pink fairy wings, right?!

And uses pink garden tools, right?

Yes, that's right.

She is my little Gardening Goddess.

Then all 3.5 of us hopped in the car and headed over to Strader's Nursery to pick up some herbs and veggies.  We decided on three tomato plants: cherry, beefsteak, and roma, pepperocini peppers, zucchini, cucumber, watermelon, and basil.

Our tomatoes did not do well last summer.  It was relatively cool for the summer so I'm thinking that may have been the problem.  We didn't get any regular tomatoes and only had a few good cherry tomatoes.  Kate LOVED picking the cherry tomatoes off last summer and eating them right in the garden!  I imagine the same will go this summer if our garden starts producing!  And this may or may not be one of the main reasons I wanted to plant more tomatoes!

Weeded and ready!

My little helper left her wings inside but adorned herself with
Frozen boots!

1-2-3 - Cheese!

First we laid all of our plants out.

Then we planted them!

And surrounded the garden with marigolds which I have read help
to keep the little critters out!

Also, just a couple of weeks ago we painted some pots to plant some sunflower seeds in.  I figured since we were already good and dirty that now might be a good time to plant said sunflower seeds.  I brought out the bag of potting soil and asked Kate to help fill her pots.

I love this!  Kate did an awesome job.

I, on the other hand, completely over-watered
all of the pots by blasting them with water from
the hose there laying on the ground.  This includes
knocking one completely off the table and breaking
it.  #momfail

We may hold off on our sunflower seed experiment
until next year.

By the end we were both covered in dirt and soil, so baths and showers ensued immediately.  We got nice and clean and reveled in our newly planted garden (and shelved the sunflower experiment).  I certainly hope we see the fruits of our labor this season!

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