We've made it a bit of an experiment. Measuring and keeping track of how much each persons plants have grown over a period of time. I took pictures too. We planted them on May 5th and this is what they looked like on the 13th.
The kids plants and my zucchini are in the yogurt cups (next year we are going to do clear cups so we can see the roots!!) and the flat with a lot of green is my lettuce and the other is spinach.
This was on the 19th.
Spinach.
Lettuce. Needs watering, I think that we probably need to water more. I'm noticing that the flats need more water then the cups.
Yogurt cups of kids stuff.. The tall ones in the back are my zucchini the big leafed ones in the front and middle are the cukes and the smaller leafed ones are radishes.. the tiny ones are carrots.
R's radishes and E's carrots.
We have also planted the raised beds out front. We planted corn (leftover seeds from last year) in one bed, peas (for fresh eating) in 2 others, one large and another small one because we had a lot of seeds left over. The last raised bed, large, has beans, also for fresh eating. We planted them all together last weekend. I raked the beds and made some farrows and the kids and I planted seeds. R helped cover them up as her idea of planting seeds is to take a handful and throw.. we let her plant the little raised bed of peas :) It is so nice to work that high up. Neither Papa or I hurt our backs planting or covering up. Then we covered them with the white fabric covers and completely forgot about them. I'll have to go take a look today and see how they are doing. I'm not expecting much from the corn.. we did plant it a bit late for up here.. even if it is a short days growing type. Normally to get corn we have to start it inside. If nothing else we'll let the cow have it this fall.
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