When looking for hobbies, I wanted to do something that got me off the computer. Not just because all my muscles had atrophied into an E.T. like husk…but mostly.
I’ll update this with what the garden looks like now but here’s what I went with:
Here we’ve got onions, lettuce, parsley, carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes. We also planted 1 little Morning glory plant…My son Alex and I “take care” of this one.
here we’ve got some strawberries, black berries, and raspberries. My daughter and I work together on this one.
Here is where we planted 3 pumpkin seeds. My Son Ryan and I work on this.
As we head into Fall, the first garden did spectacularly well. Tons of vegetables. The morning glory, however, took over. They’re very pretty but very aggressive. But we still ended up with more vegetables than we knew what to do with. It was great fun.
The strawberries just never came in. Not sure what we did wrong. But they just didn’t do anything. The blackberries and raspberries took off and did great. Our daughter loved to come out in the morning and snack on berries.
The pumpkins did well too but we only ended up with a couple decent pumpkins. Still, very exciting since they came just from seeds.
It’s a great activity to do with your kids.
One thing that we did that made life easier is that we had the raised gardens built. I spec’d them to be the same height as a chair so that you could easily just sit on the edge and work on them (weeding, etc.) which helped make the process feel a lot more like a relaxing activity than work.