Gardening with your peeps
March 23, 2008 by admin
Do you have a green thumb? Do you love to garden? I love to garden, but lack the green thumb!
This season, the girls and I are going to get some gardening done around our home. We have lived in this home for almost 2 years this July. The only thing we really have planted outside is our lawn.
You might be wondering what has sparked this interest for our family. It was Barb’s green hour challenges that started it! It was Barb’s Week 4 challenge that encouraged us to pick an area of focus. The focus for our family is garden flowers and vegetables.
So, last week, RyLee and I began some starts for our flower and vegetable garden. RyLee was motivated and enjoyed setting everything up. We bought 2 Jiffy greenhouse containers. They hold up to 72 starts each. One was for vegetables and one was for Flowers.
After the little discs puffed up RyLee then planted our seeds. They are now on my bedroom floor, behind a curtain and in front of our sliding glass door for light.
We are using a great book called Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew. I am reading some of this aloud to RyLee as we learn about gardening, and we have been making plans on where to put our boxes to garden in. We have 2 4×4 boxes now, and my husband is making us 2 more.
We have carrots, 2 kinds of lettuce, bib and romaine, tomatoes, peppers (mixed red, green and yellow) and an assortment of flowers. We bought strawberry bulbs and Dahlia bulbs too!
We look forward to sharing more of our gardening adventure with you as the season moves along. Don’t forget…next month Lori will have a garden unit study up! Look for it in April!
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Marsha on Mon, 24th Mar 2008 3:06 am
I can’t wait to see how your garden grows, Lisa! I do hope you’ll post an update down the road.
That really is one thing that I have been meaning to do… fix the flowerbeds outside and plant some green beans! For some reason I am green bean focused.
Thanks for the reminder to get busy on the garden– I am going to try really hard to get it done in the next couple of weeks.
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So Many Scraps on Mon, 24th Mar 2008 12:27 pm
I hope your garden comes out great! I am living in a home we just bought! Our other home had wonderful gardens and here I am starting from scratch! just bought lots of seeds too!
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Sheila on Mon, 24th Mar 2008 3:39 pm
I did that when my kids were smaller for about four years! We grew the little seeds under lights and transplanted them.
I had four different kinds of tomatoes, tons of different kinds of lettuce, carrots and everything.
Then we started going camping a lot in the summer, and we’d come home after two weeks and everything was weedy and dead. It sort of died out after that.
But it was great while it lasted!
Visit To Love, Honor and Vacuum today!
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lori on Mon, 24th Mar 2008 6:18 pm
I’m linking you to the Garden Unit study this month….
great ideas here~~
yea!!
love you!
lori
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the160acrewoods on Tue, 25th Mar 2008 4:49 pm
looks great! we are going to attempt growing this year too though it’s not quite the season here yet!
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