Our Gander at Gardening

Rob and I have tried gardening before and have decided the plants sprout, take one look at us and give up :) We are nothing if not stubborn though, so once again we have tried our hand at planting a garden. We kept it really simple this year though. We have a turtle sandbox on the back patio that hasn't been used as a sandbox for several years because of TX storms. We drilled some holes in the bottom and filled it with organic gardening soil. We had pots left over from last year's attempt, so we let the each of the girls pick out a packet of seeds (we decided Jack was a bit young for his own pot) and they got their own container to make a garden in.

Rob filling the turtle with the help of Megan, Kylie and Jack ~


Beth picked green beans and decided the best way to plant them was to dump the whole packet out in one pile ~


Kylie picked corn and carefully poked holes all over her dirt and put one kernel in each hole (yes, we are would have preferred them not to pick corn and green beans, but that's what they insisted they wanted)~


Megan picked out a packet of beautiful blue flowers, however the seeds were apparently VERY small and after much loving handling, no seeds were actually in the packet by the time it got opened, all of them having drained out of a hole in the corner. We had another packet of wildflower seeds that we had planned to plant around our "tree" (I use the term loosely) in the front yard, so I gave those to her so she would have something to plant~


Jack helped me fill three holes with tomato seeds and the sections between where the tomatoes will hopefully eventually come up with cilantro, parsley and basil~


After we got everything planted and watered, the kids were very excited :)~


This last picture is from this morning. Rob's brother emailed us new pictures of our nephew yesterday. All the kids (and the two of us) love seeing them, but Jack especially gets so excited when he sees them. I got a shot of his face as he noticed what was on the computer screen this morning~