It is finished!!

We planted all the rest of our seeds and seedlings today!!  Yeah!!!!!  What a relief!  What a job!  What a good feeling!!  This is SO exciting!  I can't believe that in the next few months we will be harvesting all these great veggies!  What fun!

Today we finished our garden by planting 4 kinds of peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, zucchini, cilantro, bush beans, edamame, carrots, celery, and various spices.  Yesterday we had gotten a nice rain so this morning when we showed up our garden was looking fine and ready to go!  (Though one fellow seasoned gardener said that we did not get as much rain we needed to merit not watering for a day.  Good thing we watered then!)

Random things of note: 

1. We had bought some extra top soil and peat moss for the beds that we had not weeded yet.  I primarily did the weeding and the kids added the peat moss and extra soil.  We went the extra soil route because we needed to plant our beans 2" deep and I did not know if our dry soil would let us get down 2". 

2. We also got some wood chips for Jeremiah's flower bed.  It was seriously covered in weeds that I didn't know if we could successfully pull them all.  So, we will try to cover up the weeds/sin and see how well that works. 

3. Seeds for kids?  From all the seeds we planted, here are the easiest by order: onions, edamame, green beans, peas, zucchini, sweet pea flowers, sunflowers.  They were easy for the kids to handle and see what the were doing.  (We do have extra onions, zucchini and green bean seeds if anyone wants any.)  Jeremiah was even able to do it very well.  They love making the furrow and closing it up too.

   

4. No wheel barrow yet, but this is what I have been doing (besides driving the RAV out there to deliver the big bags of stuff):

   

5. Also, I did bring buckets but they still weren't huge.  The boys though, made great use of them:

   

6. Kids garden!  Like I said, Jeremiah has his flower bed, then we added a tomato plant for people to steal from and 3 kinds of pepper plants for people to steal from.  Miriam has her broccoli plant growing there too.  Ezekiel then planted his carrots and celery and some spices.  (The three little cilantros are mine though, :)!  They love knowing that this is just for them.

   

7. Um... sunscreen? The genius that I am, I wanted to try and get rid of some of my farmer's tan so today I wore a sunbathing type shirt and now have one fried back.  Yikes!  Genius!

The thing I have noticed now is that I am suspicious of anyone just "looking" at the gardens.  I am now quick to chat with them, see if they have a plot, and if they don't, I make sure to mention the time, effort, hard work, money we and the other gardeners have put into this place.  Just for good measure.  Again, here's praying that we can reap just a little of the harvest for us even if we do feed the neighborhood as well, so be it.