Chasing Cheerios

We planted fruit trees (or bushes) at the birth of each of our girls.  O(7)'s peach and fig trees produce abundantly each year, and E(4...

We planted our cucumber plants over our old climbing dome, and they is doing wonderfully!  (we did this last year, but all of the plants di...

The girls were VERY excited to harvest the vegetables from our aquarium garden .  O(6) said "homegrown carrots are SO much better than ...

The girls were very excited to harvest the peaches from our tree.  O(5) is proudly wearing her bracelet from Jordan!

A couple of months ago, the girls, my mom, and I planted several different types of vegetables (onions, carrots, turnips, and garlic chiv...

We have really enjoyed our garden so far this year.  For the past couple of years, we've only planted grape tomatoes in our earthboxes, ...

O's sunflowers are growing fast, too! We planted them in a square to make a sunflower house. We hope that we'll have flowers soon....

O's sweet pea tee pee is growing and growing! She was thrilled to find tiny flowers inside her tee pee. To make the tee pee we bought ...

Shelling sweet peas.   Here's our deck garden. We have lots of green tomatoes, and a few squash that may be ready by next week. H...

My mom has taught O all about herbs this spring. She can identify more herbs than I can! Yesterday they planted dill...yummy! Today the...

We were so happy that O and Guh-guh prepared and planted our earthboxes for us one day when Elliott and I were at work. We decided to prima...

O is learning a lot about gardening from Guh-guh and Grandpa! I'm hoping she'll plant our garden this summer since she has so much ...

O has had so many fun learning experiences at Guh-guh and Grandpa's house this week. Guh-guh taught her how to re-pot African Violets....

Guh-guh and M planted collard greens a few months ago, so we'd have them to eat on New Year's Day. Yesterday afternoon, O, M, and Gu...