The latest on the whole crew
Last night while Cora and Amy were at a dance rehearsal, the boys and I headed over to the school garden and removed 7 lawn bags of weeds and also picked some garlic (as seen). We had a great system in place. I loosened the weeds withy pick axe, Evan then raked everything into a pile, and Will then bagged the piles.
The kids all love helping in the garden. Evan enjoys wearing his gardening gloves and digging. Cora loved planting the seeds. Will just loves being in the garden. We planted half the garden a few weeks ago with heartier plants: carrots, lettuce, peas, and some peppers. We look forward to another successful garden like last year!
Packing down the sand
I decided that it was time to start gardening so Evan could learn about plants as well as being able to go out before dinner and picking some of his favorite foods (he absolutely loves fruits and vegetables). I wanted him to help with the digging/planting/etc so of course – you can see the sort of help he provided in the photo. I had a mixture of sand and soil and asked him to simply flatten out some of the big balls of dirt/sand. In his mind – he thought the steamroller was the tool of choice so he was rolling around on everything to flatten everything out. Let’s hope his method works! (I went back and loosened everything up)