My favorite thing about the garden? The way the smell of the tomatoes plant lingers on my hands after I run them through the leafs.
River's favoirte things about the garden? Watering the garden with his spray bottle & Picking the strawberries and eating them before anyone else has a chance.
Skyler's favorite thing about the garden? He requested jalepeno peppers and doesn't have to do a thing to grow them.
Charlie's favorite thing about the garden? Burying his nose in the strawberry plants and sniffing out the ripe ones.
This is our second year planting our raised garden. I was so excited because we got a timely start this year, and I planted some of my favorites veggies, Pear tomatoes & lemon cucumbers -- only to have it ripped to shreds by giant hail storms at the beginning of the season -- Colorado weather! Erg!! But my young garden was a fighter, surviver, and thriver. I thought for sure we lost everything, and we did lose some stuff - 2 cucumber plants- but i am amazed at how wonderful everything is growing, even the pumpkin plant that struggled so in the beginning is starting to get big and stretch it's vine outside the walls. The strawberry plants have been a fun and pretty addition. It's been a fun thing for me and Riverboy to do together this summer.
{And don't worry River didn't actually bite into the jalepeno, he knows it's "dada's hot num-num", but Skyler was a little surprised by how hot it was when he bit into it. Anyone have any good jalepeno recipes?}
Love that last pic. So how does River like Jalepenos? My struggle with Jenna (Jaime) was having her pick plumbs off the ground and put them in her mouth. All she had to do was look at them, and they would go right through her. That was her first year and I scolded her. "No more plumbs until your potty trained!" We didn't get plumbs on our trees for another two years.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny. Luckily River didn't actually take a bite. He likes spicy things, but I think the heat would have been a little too much for the dude. :)
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