Garden, Part Deux

So now I have some really big vegetables and some small ones as well. We have these great little lemon boy cucumbers!

Check out the giant squash...and no there are no hormones or synthetic fertilizers....all natural expensive water and tons of free sunshine! I swear these plants grow inches over night. It's crazy!

LOST TOOTH

Hurray! Finally Madeline has lost her first tooth. She's been waiting for this for a while, being that she's one of the youngest for her grade. The tooth was kinda dangling for a while and I was to squeamish to pull it (as was she). So my friend, Preethy just yanked it out...no pain, no tears!

Gardening

We've had a garden now for a couple seasons. It's so fun to watch these little tiny plants grow into super yielding crops. We planted Easter Sunday under the tipsy direction of my step mom. I kept saying that we had way too much to plant in our limited space, but she kept talking about square foot gardening...although in our case it can be more like square 6 inch gardening. In a 2ft x2 ft space we have:

2 artichoke plants (which grow into bushes 4 ft in diameter)

2 squash plants

4 or so pepper plants

oh yeah...and a couple watermelon plants

And for the rest of the garden we have about 6 more squash/zucchini plants, 4 strawberry, 4 tomato, a bunch pf cucumber and many herbs. It's fun to watch it grow and harvest what we're going to eat for dinner. The girls have always been pretty good eaters, but it's much more fun to eat veggies you grow yourself...and no salmonella tomatoes in this house!