Our little garden

Todd and I decided over the winter we wanted to plant a garden for Aubrey this summer. I originally planned a pallet garden using a pallet I got from the farm supply. But after reading that wasn't a great idea due to toxins used to treat the pallets, Todd built a raised garden for us instead. We decided to plant 2 tomatoes, 4 cucumber vines, 1 green pepper, 1 basil, 1 oregano and marigolds around the border to ward off the bugs. After Todd finished building the raised bed he and Aubrey had a dandy time putting all of the plants in the dirt. Aubrey really doesn't need a reason to play in the dirt so she was thrilled for the chance to help. I even found her a pair of Dora gardening gloves that she thought were the coolest things ever. So far the garden is coming along well, even though we did loose 1 cucumber vine. Hopefully we'll start seeing some veggies sometime in July and I can't wait. Our strawberries we planted several years ago are doing fantastic, but the slugs keep getting to a lot of them before we can eat them. We expect to have a ton of blueberries as well and I hope to find a good cobbler recipe to cook them in.

Hopefully the garden turns out well and Aubrey learns a few things in the process.

Todd and Aubrey at work

The finished garden

Aubrey with the watering can