First Fruits
16 Jun 2011 1 Comment
in Crafts and Activities, Gardening
We are starting to enjoy the fruits of our garden labors!
Jalapenos
Garden Beans
Morning Glories
So, in true homeschool fashion, we spent one day this week doing our nature study from the garden, specifically our garden beans. We tasted them, smelled them, touched them, looked for them, and listened to our garden sounds.
Then we drew a bean in our notebooks.
Celebrating Sprouts!
28 Apr 2011 6 Comments
in Crafts and Activities, Gardening
We have sprouts! That’s great news for me, since gardening is usually a humbling lesson in failure. My little helpers are very excited.
Garden bean sprouts
Morning Glories along the fence line
Lettuce sprouts
Cilantro
Peppers in pots, from the nursery
Other herbs, also from the nursery
We have a hungry little animal or two or three that put an end to my herbs last year; thus, all the pots and hanging baskets–all in high hopes of discouraging some of that snacking.
Tuckered out
Inside, we had even more garden fun. We’ve been learning “s”eeds, “g”arden, and “p”ots. So, we made these cute carrot “p”atches with peanut butter wafer cookies, chocolate wafer cookies and chocolate icing, and Mike and Ikes/gumdrop carrots. Family Fun magazine provided the inspiration for the project.
Little One loves to "cook" (and she wanted all her bows in her hair that day; why not, you're only young once)
Ready for tasting. Enjoy, little one! It might by your only "harvest."
- Our first garden post, Celebrating Life, was actually featured on my Homekeepers blog.
