CORN CLEAN-UP!

We've sure had some delicious ears of corn this fall, however, we've also lost a lot of corn to rot/water damage. (We may have to re-think how we water the corn next year, OR pray for no rain at the wrong time!) We continue to live and learn!! We got a lot of clean up done in the short hour we had. But the weather was BEAUTIFUL and it felt so good to be outside enjoying it all! Thanks for the great job of pulling corn and composting beds! It looks great!!

Ahhhh, September!!

Suddenly it's September, and temperatures are instantly cooler!! And it was a beautiful morning to be working in the garden! Amazing what can be accomplished in one hour! We hope the trash man doesn't mind our pile of debris. Who would have thought our beautiful sunflowers would create so much bio mass??? We found a few different creatures in the garden and the kids enjoyed the variety of work/fun.

SUNFLOWERS, ANYONE???

So we experimented this year by planting a variety of sunflower seeds. Some of them were definitely overachievers!! They aren't the dainty things you see in flower bouquets, that's for sure!

But sure fun to have in the garden!!

GREAT GARDENERS!!

Wow! What a productive hour we spent in the garden this morning!! With over 35 people there to help out, we got a ton done!! We had BIG kids, LITTLE kids, OLD people, and YOUNG people...we even had a SUPER HERO show up!! Everyone got involved and we had a lot of fun getting the work done! Thanks for the great help everyone!!

These kids did a great job with the carrots and beets planting! And the parents caught on very quickly, too!!

Not sure if the boys got more work done or more playing. . .

either way, they knew how to make it fun!

WE LOVE OUR COMMUNITY GARDEN!! Lots of pics in the slide show, too!!

Garden Activity

Even YOUNGER kids are a big help in the garden!! These 8, 9 and 10 year old girls (with some of their siblings...) did a great job weeding, picking vegetables, and helping out in the garden. They had a lot of fun, too!

ONE WEEK LATER. . .

Yup, just one week later we have six beds of corn coming up great and 2 beds of green beans!! We LOVE gardening in Dixie!!

From Garden

We "pre-soak" the corn seed for three days, then plant it. We were gone until Saturday, so I don't know for sure when it started poking through, but it was five days from when we planted that we came home and found nearly all of it an inch or two high! The green beans were barely showing on Saturday, but by Sunday afternoon they were nearly ALL up!

From Garden

Sunflowers are another story. The Russian Mammoth (the really tall, big ones!) will produce the seeds we're familiar with eating. The others are just pretty! But I think we'll plant differently next year!

From Garden

Three Days Later. . .

We sure have gotten a lot of work done in preparation for the corn and beans planting!!