Kids in the Garden

I let the kids make their own veggie markers out of paint sticks and the dreaded permanent pen!
Strike a pose! Where does that come from?
Barry was cracking up at this one, he said she is just like Patti at that age. Precious!

Max watering his pumpkin plant, which by the way already has little flowers sprouted.

A boy's gotta love the dirt!

The Garden

Patti dropped the kids off after church and we got right to work on planting their pumpkin plants and sunflower seeds. What good little workers they were. Emma planted hers and then made a beeline to wash her hands, but came right back to do a photo shoot. Max loved every minute of it, he even wanted to wear my pink gardening shoes. He got creative with the watering though, see the neat little circles I make, he thought it was cool to fill them and drag the hose so they all became connected, like little islands. Ok, I let that go, trying to be easy going, until this morning when I went out to fix it. We picked the last of the oranges and then poisoned Lilly again. Yes, she ate the snail bait two days in a row! She had the shakes so bad and was panting and breathing so heavily we all felt sorry for her, even Jess. Who know that to make the bait more attractive to snails they are made with molasses and bran. Who wouldn't want to eat it? She seems fine now, but she isn't out of the woods yet, liver damage is a possibility. Poor girl.

So glad to have some of my plants in the garden and some of the grand kid's pumpkins planted, just need the next batch of kids to come over. Dustin is a little worried that they got a head start on the growing, he's bringing fertilizer!