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Tip to gardeners with two year olds, don’t keep you seeds on the counter within some little hands reach. I was at least happy she was nice enough to bring the seeds from the kitchen counter to the kitchen table to open and pour them out…much easier to clean up than rubbed into the carpet.
Happy seed starting…
The appeal of working in the garden has always been natural to my daughters. But then again what could be better than going outside playing with dirt and water. I do have a few tips I have picked up that might make it a little extra fun for the young ones: Let them have their own garden, not only does this give them their own space to play but…
It shouldn’t be a surprise that kids these days are not as patient as previous generations. Personally I feel this is less on a change of parenting but a result of children’s expectations created because of the advance of technology. For example, When my daughter asks to watch a particular show “On Demand” and then 5 minutes later asks me to “pause it” so she can go potty. This…
In case you missed the first and second annual lady bug release, you can follow those posts. We have never had a serious aphid or spider mite problem and I like to feel our annual release of lady bugs is the reason why. Either way, great entertainment for the girls for a couple hours for a $6.00 bag of lady bugs. Lady bugs sometimes naturally choose to wander from…
I was thinking back to my first vegetable gardening experience in suburbia a few years ago. After many trips to the local home and garden store I accumulated the following: Soil amendments (compost/peat moss/perlite) $ 33.00 Garden tools (rake/fork) $ 16.00 Organic fertilizer $ 3.00 Seeds and seed starter kit $ 24.00 Kid garden tools (shovel/watering can) $ 5.00 Miscellaneous $ 10.00 Total $ 91.00 In the end of…
The girls finally noticed the ladybugs had arrived at Home Depot, so today we had our second annual garden ladybug release. I did a bit of research and followed some advice of commenters on my previous post by spraying the garden with sugar water to give them a little extra reason to stick around after being released. The conditions today were perfect for the release, cool, overcast evening with…
When growing tomatoes from seed you are going to have to repot them. The basic idea is you never want to stress the plant out by restricting the roots from getting wider. Fortunately the process to do this between the various growth states is pretty simple and does not really change much between repotting. The first time you will need to repot them to a 4 inch put when…
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Well seems like you are going to have a large crop of carrots this year. Another tip, don’t let a two year old play with your pumpkins on the deck without supervision, otherwise you’ll have shredded leaves. 🙁