A Fall Garden

Last Wednesday my mom came over to help me plant our garden.  We've never really had a super successful garden.  And we really never knew the right way to go about preparing the soil and keeping it fertilized.  But my parent's raised garden bed has been doing amazing for the past couple years, so I begged asked her if she would teach me her ways.  :)

This day was unusually hot so we made sure to pull up plenty of umbrellas for shade!  I don't think much would have happened without them!

Brett came home from school just in time to help with the planting.  He's such a great and eager helper!  His preschool is right behind our house and we got to chat with him over the fence while he was having outside play time.  He was so excited to see us out there preparing the garden for planting.

Camille kept herself busy digging around and playing in the yard.

All done!  We kept our 2 pumpkin plants (even though they were planted way to late and we probably  won't have pumpkins before Halloween), and a cherry tomato plant that has survived the summer.  I didn't have the heart to rip it out.  I think it's going to be a happy little plant now that the weather is cooling.

After my mom left I whipped up a yummy lunch that the kids ate most of while I put the finishing touches on the garden.

I love making muffin tin lunches like this.  The kids think it's so great and they eat it all up so fast.  And it's so easy for me and faster than putting together sandwiches!

And Tyler fell asleep in his jumpy thing.  :)

Shortly after that, Grant came home from school and showed us the wound on his bottom lip (the rug-burn on the nose was already there) that he got from playing tether ball at recess.  Good thing our family pictures aren't until next weekend!  As of today he's already looking much better.  :)

Just yesterday I found this cute little broccoli plant popping up in the garden already!  And today there were several more plants popping up!  I am just amazed at what can come from a tiny seed!!!

I have high hopes for the success of this garden!  I can't wait to see how it turns out!