Melons, cucumbers, pumpkins

Bee friendly flowers from Matt's brother

Cabbage, broccoli or cauliflower -  I have two plants and don't know which seeds worked.

I ate my first ripe cherry tomato today and I see lots of green tomatoes on the vine.

Tomatoes

Peppers

Brussel Sprouts

2 carrot rows (need a little weeding and thinning)

Beets

A wheat expirament

More bee friendly flowers from Matt's brother

And more

And more

Peas

Beans

Corn

Sunflowers -  the bees love them

Bald patch - either we didn't get the corn seeds right or we accidentally hoed them up

Better photo of the beans

Mint -  my mom always grew it and I like the way it smells

Chives

Peas!

Sam is enjoying himself right here by the way.  : )

Matt

Robin+: "Matt, will you make popcorn? Yours is always better than mine."

Matt: "Do you know why?"

Robin: "extra butter?"

Matt: "Its not black when I'm done."

Sayings ??X?CMXCL

Robin: It sure is nice when people collect something. That way, we can always have something to buy them.

Silas: Mom, you have a collection.

Robin: I do???

Silas: Yeah, Kids!

Abbey's vocabulary

Abbey can say two sentences and a bunch of words, most of it I can't understand.

"Pooped in" and she points to her diaper.

Last week she said, "Toe hurt me." She lifted her toe and held it out to me.

Sayings LIX

Gideon, "I have an owie in my foot."

Mom, "oh is it a splinter?"

Gideon, "no its a practice."

Mom, "hmm."

Mom, "A practice?"

Gideon, "yes a practice that I stepped on."

Mom, "oh a cactus!"

Sayings LIII

Today Matt was picking out his tie and Gideon was watching.  Gideon asked, "What flag are you going to wear today, Dad?"

Sayings XXXXXIII

This morning Gideon said, "Mom will you sharpen my fingernails they are getting long."

Sayings XXXXXII

I asked Gideon if he was ready for breakfast.  He said yes but he wanted real food not a banana or an apple or an orange or anything like that.  He told me cornbread was real food. : ) 

The Garden today - about 4 weeks later maybe

These are Elijah's sunflowers

The Corn and Herbs/Volunteer Peas on the left

Green Beans

Peas

Flowers

This is I think, Columbine and Yarrow.  Kid's choices.  I don't know what they do.

Beets and Carrots

Brussel Sprouts

Peppers

Tomato

Flowers

More Tomatos

You can see a Pepper on this plant.

In the center is the plant I thought was a variety of lettuce, tried a bite and half poisoned myself.

More flowers, notice the red ones in the back they are ones the boys picked out.

The melon patch.  Cucumbers, pumpkins, and watermelon.

A cucumber plant

a pumpkin plant

 

 the whole thing

There are sunflower plants throughout the garden.  Left over seeds were tilled in and grew.  Nobody wants to see them die so we left them.  Our plants (and weeds) are very happy.  We used chicken manure and I guess plants like that.  You can see we have weeded the corn and got it mulched.  We had weeded the other sections but didn't have enough mulch and they grew back.  We are about to get another load of grass mulch from the town and back to work weeding this weekend. : )

So far we have picked and eaten 2 pea pods. They were good.