Garden Beds

Last week the children planted their garden beds. For a bit they'd been asking where they could have their gardents this year. The spot they had last year got infested with deadly nightshade and anyway, it's my prime hot tomato growing spot. So we had to come up with another location. After getting them interested in planting and growing their own veggies, I couldn't really blame them for wanting to continue their interest. We priced already made beds online and then decided to construct our own with carpentry consultation from Papa. We made them out of repurposed fence boards, which meant of course, that Manu had to fix that part of the fence first, further delaying the start of the long awaited tree house project. But it was planting time... And before you plant, you have to have something to plant in. We hammered them together, hauled topsoil, figured out their placement in the sunny end of the front yard, and then went to Flower World to get starts and seeds. As of this posting, Evangeline's radish seeds have already sprouted! Very encouraging. The weather is supposed to hit 80 later this week, so I expect to see lots of things popping up before long. Zarli was napping when we planted these, and so as yet, hasn't really figured out that his own is missing. If I can get Manu to repair a few more feet of fence, maybe he can have one too.