Laura's Veggie Garden Doing Great!

Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 08:00

Pa's vegetable garden hasn't been much to look at yet this year, but you should see 10-year-old Laura's garden! I am very proud of how well she has done with her cool season garden bed. This year we built two 12x3 garden beds exclusively for her and Mary to work with. Laura decided that one bed would be for cool season veggies and the other for the warm season crops. Here is her beautiful cool-season bed:

On one end she planted broccoli and several kinds of leaf lettuce.

In the middle, she planted more leaf lettuce, head lettuce, spinach and garlic.

On the other end, she planted onions and more spinach and lettuce.

Also notice the two potato plants on the top right of the above picture. When we built the new raised bed for her, we dug some dirt out of the existing garden. The most fertile soil was from where we planted potatoes last year. While digging, Laura found two of last year's potatoes, so she decided to stick them in her garden to see if they would grow. Of course with her green thumb, they are growing like crazy! Now we know where Sammy, her Guinea Pig gets her green thumb from!

We have already enjoyed eating salads from her garden. It has been great because she has at least five different types of lettuce and spinach. I am so glad that she planted this cool-season garden, because I didn't plant any spring lettuce or broccoli. I was much too busy working on building our deck. By the way, it is getting closer to being finished. The floor is done, so we were able to put the furniture out.

But this post is NOT about the deck, it is about Green Thumb daughters. Mary has a green thumb too. She planted a whole bed of flowers in the main garden but they are all still very small. I'm sure I will have beautiful pictures of it to post in about a month. It's nice having good gardening daughters to pick up the slack for ol' dad.

Have a great Memorial Day holiday. Don't forget to remember those soldiers who have laid down their lives for this country. I thank God for them and all of the soldiers currently serving to protect our freedoms!!!

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Posted by blessedmomof10 on Monday, May 28, 2007 at 11:05 - Link

The deck looks awesome!! Good job, pa!!

blessings,
gloria

very nice

Posted by lerdman4 on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 05:59 - Link

tell your girls what a beautiful job on that garden. And look at all the good food you reap. I just love to here when children get a great sense of self worth when they do things... Good for them. Bless you and your family

Lisa