Vegetable garden--June 19, 2010Katie, Joseph, and Matthew have been building a lasagna layer garden since last fall. At the end of May, we passed the last frost date for Misawa, but the weather still wasn't very inviting, so it took a couple of weeks to finish preparing the garden soil.
Matthew enhanced the border with his extensive collection of butter clam shells (scroll down the linked page for info). He also planted a small fiber square of flower seeds that came in our book, The Tiny Seed, by Eric Carle. No leaves yet, but he is watering and weeding faithfully. The rest of us are hoping, for his sake, that they sprout soon.
The children set out their yellow and red cherry tomatoes (with marigolds interspersed to discourage pests), corn, and strawberries on June 18th. Joseph had planted pumpkin seeds and peas last fall. The rains and warm sunshine of the past week have really gotten things growing.
Vegetable garden - June 27, 2010The tomatoes already need to be staked, and the pumpkin has almost filled its quadrant of the garden.
The peas didn't come up at all: a disappointment.
We loved the sweetness of the peas Joseph planted in our flower garden last year and were looking forward to eating them again later in the summer. But it was an experiment--to see if last year's seeds would germinate.
As Joseph, the gardening optimist, says, "We can just plant those bean seeds you bought for my science experiment in that spot instead."
Their other planned experiment is to plant Japanese cucumber seeds even later (not until July 3) in the hopes of having them ripen after we return to Misawa in late August. And hopefully ripening before the first frost in late September. :)
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