Our Garden

Our garden is planted! This week my dad, Jackson and I spent two after schools planting the plants we had for our garden. We still have a few seeds we want to plant but we are also running out of room!

I am renting a garden plot through the park district and am so excited to continually take Jackson there to take care of the plants and pick the food when its ready! We planned out and planted tomatos, green peppers, cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower, jalapenos, habeneros, spicy oregano, egg plant, zuccini, and kale. We still hope to plant at least some flowers ("for mommy" as Jackson says) and pumpkin seeds.  

Jackson goes in spurts of helping and exploring. His imagination gets going and he finds rocks, plays with the shovel or tries to mimic what Grandpa or myself is doing. He helped rake and pick weeds at the beginning then would push dirt into a hole after a plant was in and even put one in the hole on his own. He loves to be involved and asks a lot of questions. 

Today he was very interested in the measure stick my dad made, asking what number each one on it was. He gets dirty and is bothered by it for a little bit but then brushes his hands off on his shirt and moves on. It is so sweet to hear him get excited about going to the garden, understand what some of the tools are and show care for the plants that we had planted. A special thanks to my dad for all his hard work on aspects of the garden that pregnant me and toddler Jackson cant do well.

Can't wait till we are eating the fresh veggies!