| We've got exciting things happening in our yard. I've definitely caught gardening fever, big time. I think about it all day long. I go to bed wishing I could stay up and garden and I wake up eager to get outside and start work. I apologize in advance that my gardening skills are clearly better than my photography.
The carrots are starting to look much more carroty:
I realize it's blurry but instead of just little stems with two leaves each, some of the carrots are starting to grow leaves that look like carrot tops. Hooray! And I'm finally having an easier time telling the difference between the carrots and the weeds. Some of the weeds are easy to distinguish, but others have been able to fool me until now.
Then there's the lemon tree, which has flowers and lemons in various stages of formation:
The fava beans are thriving (which is good because I thought I nearly killed one of them!):
And the herbs...
Oregano
Thyme
Candy Mint (selected by our 3 yr old candy addict)
Last, there's my favorite to obsess over, the sugarsnap peas:
They are a lot of fun because they grow so quickly. They haven't even been out of the ground a week and already some of them are over 4" tall!
For the full story about "Flower Power Farm" (the name we chose for our garden):
Part 1: Preparing the soil and planting the carrot seeds
Part 2: Preparing the soil for peas and cruciferous veggies
Part 3: Enter the Pests
Part 4: The Carrots Sprouted!
Part 5: Gardening with the Kids
Part 6: The Peas Sprouted! |
