Your garden looks like it's doing great!! I'm sure it's because of all the rain we've been having this summer...I know over here in western Ma I haven't had to water my garden once all summer long!! I also have a quick question not related to your garden!! But about your school year planning what curriculum do you use...if any, and how do you plan, I just ask because I look at your blog and your class days look like SO MUCH FUN, and your daughter looks like she has a blast too!! Thanks for sharing Jenn
8/8/08, 10:10 AM
I got an email today from one of my wonderful blogger mom friends asking about how our garden had turned out as I hadn't mentioned anything about it. I think I hadn't mentioned it because it didn't turn out nearly as well as we had hoped, but we did get some things out of it. Here is what happened - First we had everything growing beautifully and when we went to start transplanting them outside we had a downpour for 3 days and most of the seedlings did not make it. Then we got them up and going again on the back porch this time and we had another wash out that lost about 2/3 of the plants. When I finally got a dry enough day to transplant we realized that all the sticks had gotten mixed up and we really weren't sure what some of the things were, so we just guessed and put them in the ground. We knew that we had cucumbers, carrots, peas, squash, lettuce and watermelon once they started growing a bit more and things looked good once they got in the ground. Then came more torrential rain! It was the long leaf variety so the weight of them with all the rain water made them topple over. They were growing so well too! We had lettuce coming out our ears. [Image]The cucumbers and the squash have not produced anything. Don't know why they had huge flowers blooming, but their is no sign of squash forming. Some say we did not water them enough, but I don't know how we could have watered them more. [Image]Here is a picture of the beans KM got out of the garden today and the mini carrots that she pulled up because she did not believe me when I said that they really were carrots growing under there! [Image]We have been discussing our plans for next years garden and the big thing we will be doing is RESEARCH! We really kinda just went at it this year with very little information or guidance at all, so I guess with that in mind we did really well.
1 Comment
Close this window Jump to comment formYour garden looks like it's doing great!! I'm sure it's because of all the rain we've been having this summer...I know over here in western Ma I haven't had to water my garden once all summer long!!
I also have a quick question not related to your garden!! But about your school year planning what curriculum do you use...if any, and how do you plan, I just ask because I look at your blog and your class days look like SO MUCH FUN, and your daughter looks like she has a blast too!!
Thanks for sharing
Jenn
8/8/08, 10:10 AM