Gardening with your peeps

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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!