Gardening with Poppi

Kate is so excited to do a little gardening

Just Love this picture, so sweet.

We are all squinting because the sun is to bright.

Planting Green Beans

Poppi showing Kids how to plant the seeds

This entry is a little late, but fun to talk about.  A couple of months ago the kids Helped Grandpa or as they call him Poppi plant vegetables in his grow box.  They really enjoyed digging in the dirt and planting mainly the marigold flowers to help keep little critters out.  Since it has been a few months I am now able to post an after picture of how well the grow box it doing.  The deer around here get into everything, so some of the vegetable did not survive, but the kids marigolds did to funny.  The kids had an exciting time learning about gardening and all the things a plant need to grow.  Kate said we need sun, water and soil for the plant to grow.  She remembered from the first time I told her how things grow a couple of years ago.  So there is proof that she is listening even if she seems like she's not.  Caleb liked digging the best I think, he soon lost interest after that job was done, so sister took over and planted the seeds.  Kate liked planting the seeds the best anyways so it all worked out.  There is just something about planting your own food and watching it grow, there just something so satisfying about it.  We have only tried the lettuce in a salad so far and it's really tasty.  The Kids loved to go out and watch Poppi water the grow box and see how much there flowers have grown.  Kate a few weeks after they started to spout came and got me and said you need to see this mommy is a panic, I thought something was wrong she was so out of breath from running.  She pulled me over to the grow box and screamed "Look Mommy they are growing, the plants are growing!"  It's neat to see her excitement about gardening.