Radish Sprouts!

Good news! One of everything planted has "been hatched." We have about seven onions popping up, one pea, one carrot and a whole lot of radishes. The kids are still loving the garden and insist on being outside as much as possible. We are watering every night and every morning and haven't killed anything yet. Still waiting for mom to plant her garden and keep us updated on a garden in Idaho. In a few days we will start thinning.

The first week

Well I am pretty impatient. I go out and stare at the box that looks empty but clearly isn't because I know that I put in hundreds of carrot seeds, quite a few radishes and lots of onions. But still nothing is poking up in order to receive real sunlight. I did kind of get lazy by the time I planted the radishes so we will see what turns up there.

My box is broken. I am however optimistic that it will be fixed and fairly easily. My kids love dirt and come inside screaming and crying everyday. It is a chore to get them to come inside and eat. Hopefully when we lay sod in a few weeks we can just eat outside. Alice clings to her little pink shovel and at least three time an hour brings me my shoes, her shoes and her shovel and throws them in front of me and then sits and puts her feet up so I can shod her. Hilarious.

So far the dirt and rocks are winning. Hopefully some of my seeds will come through by Saturday. I can't wait.

Planting the Spring Veggies

This blog is dedicated to the learning of gardening and basic landscape plantings. It will consist of a few contributors who are interested in making their gardens functional and growing enough goodies to be healthy and lower that grocery bill. This is also the best idea I had at keeping a garden journal and keeping track of what does well in the garden and also what fails. Rocky Mountain gardening here we come!

First we ordered our square foot garden from Home Gardens to Go in Pleasant Grove. It was awesome. They delivered it and set it up, and then put in the soil. Hooray! The kids were so excited.

We planted eight pea plants in one square. About 100 carrots in another square. 25 radishes each in two squares. Then nine onions in one square and then 12 onions in another square. This was all yesterday. So we will see how they all turn out. I will post pics soon, the kids had the best time gardening with me. They love their gardening stuff thanks to Grandma.