I have a small garden where I play “Farmer.” It’s only 4’x8′ and I don’t expect to feed my family from it. But if we can get some veggies every year while the children experience the cycle of sowing, weeding, watering and harvesting, I am happy.
This year, we already learned some lessons from it. Now, I’m back with an update.
It has been raining almost every day for the past three weeks. I have not had to water my garden. Yeah!
I did have to clean up after our cat, who had been using our garden patch as a litter box. Yuck!
My husband came up with a solution: plastic fencing that can be wrapped around the four poles of the garden bed. I knew those poles would come in handy one day…
So here’s my veggie garden in full swing, with the new fencing around it.
My small garden is producing a lot this year.
Our one and only blackberry bush
We picked about 15 blackberries today and, from the looks of it, we will have more
Our one and only grape vine
This would be the first year we would enjoy grapes from our backyard
One of our blueberry bushes
We always get lots and lots of blueberries
A baby cucumber
I showed this baby cucumber to my son. He touched it, got hurt and blurted, “It’s prickly!” all before I could warn him.
Tiny tomatoes
It looks like we will get some tomatoes this year.
Tiny peppers
We love green peppers and grow them every year. They are so sweet compared to grocery store peppers.
These pictures are quite the metaphor for children. Growing, developing, not yet fully matured, but perfect in every way. And cute.
