Sunflowers, Green Beans, and Watermelon!

All of our plants are grown and we have even harvested some!
The first thing we picked was green beans!
These are Zach's favorite.
He gave them a stamp of approval when he ate them for dinner!

Then our sunflowers bloomed!

These things got TALL!!

I love sunflowers!

They are so cheery!

Riley's purple flowers never grew. =(

I have no idea what happened.

We planted carrots too....but the rabbits ate them all!

The plant the kids were most excited about were the watermelons.

I was pleasantly surprised when we started seeing baby watermelons.

We had five big watermelons Friday night and some new baby ones.

By big, I mean about 4 pounds.

The watermelons we grew were Sugar Baby Watermelons.

I wasn't too sure how big they were supposed to be, but one looked ripe,

so we took it off of the vine.

Then we cut it open:

Then we let the kids taste it:

MMMMMM......

It was sweet, juicy, delicious, and tiny. =)

We all got a few little pieces and then it was all gone.

Oh well, good thing we have more outside still growing.

I think next year we will try to grow big watermelons!!

Another Garden Update

Our little garden has been busy growing!

The kids were especially excited about the watermelon.

I can't wait for everything to be completely grown!

Garden Update

The garden that we planted several weeks ago is really growing!

Soon we will have giant sunflowers, and yummy carrots, green beans, and watermelon!!

Our Garden

On Saturday, we planted a garden.
The boys have been asking to plant one for weeks now.
To quote Zach:
"Mom, I want to be able to grow our own food, so I can walk outside and pick fresh food off the vine."
There's only one problem with that.
Zach only likes a few select vegetables.
I would love to grow tomatoes, peppers, onions, etc.
But I would be the only one eating them.
So, we went to the store and picked out these seeds.

Green beans (Zach's favorite), carrots, and they talked me into watermelon.
(We'll see how that one works out....)
We also picked out giant sunflowers (my favorite) and Riley picked out some pretty purple flowers.

They do like other veggies, but I don't exactly have a green thumb, and I am not brave enough to try those. =)

We started out with Jeff building a wooden frame for where we wanted to plant the food seeds.

We also bought dirt to put in there to help the seeds grow.

Lily helped Jeff spread it out.

While Jeff was working on that, the kids & I planted the flower seeds.

The dug, planted, and covered up the seeds.

Then we moved over to the bigger garden and planted the green beans, carrots, and watermelon.

We are really excited to watch everything grow!

I will keep you updated on our progress. =)