We are p-patchers. We love our garden. It's our special thing we do together as a family. I love having this place where we go together and get all dirty and do some hard physical labor and work together as a team. This is our fourth season at Picardo p-patch. I feel like we are really getting the hang of things this season. When we started, our plot had some wonderful perennials that we inherited- asparagus, a lavender bush, a rosemary bush, sage, oregano, and thyme. We have contributed our own perennials too- autumn gold berries from my Grandpa Bob, raspberries, rhubarb, purple fingerling potatoes, and dahlias. Each year has been a new learning experience for us. I remember we grew a lot of lettuce and spinach our first year (a super easy, no fail, no brainer for Seattle), our second year we planted tons of tomatoes and basil (a super adventurous, somewhat risky endeavour for Seattle), and the third year we tried artichokes and brussel sprouts (the artichokes nearly took over our plot). Each year we've grown peas and carrots too. This year we have planted (from seed) swiss chard, spinach, carrots, peas, and lettuce. Our new adventure this year is strawberries and pumpkins! We planted the strawberry starts last week and they look fantastic. We are going to grow our own pumpkins to carve and eat. We will plant the seeds this week and the next. We are going to try two varieties- a sweet pumpkin and a white pumpkin. Fun, huh?
The best part of gardening this spring has been Jasper. He loves our garden. He asks to go to it every single day, I kid you not. And, honestly, he is really helpful. We've worked really hard to teach him where to dig and where not to step. He helps pull weeds and waters all the tiny, baby plants very carefully. He and I went last Friday and he did all the watering for me. It was great. Peter, Paul and Mary sing a song called "the garden song" and we listen to each each time before we go and Jasper and I dance around the living room and get ourselves pumped up to go.
Here are some pics of our garden:
Jasper watering the baby lettuce plants
Rhubarb
from top to bottom- autumn gold berries from Grandpa Bob, potato trench, peas, carrots, and asparagus popping up in the middle
Strawberries and oregano
Jasper at work
4 comments:
I love it. I wish we could have a garden. It really must be so rewarding to eat all of those yummy things you've grown and you are teaching Jasper such good skills too.
We'll try to go with you guys next week, it would be so fun for Max to play with Jasper. I just love fresh rhubarb, bring me some this summer and I'll make you a rhubarb cobbler :)
Wow!! I hope we can start something in our yard, though I won't try to tackle anything till school is out. It's fun to know how much Jasper loves it; that makes me want to get David involved!
k, I'm SO jealous of this little scene! How cute is Jasper?? I wish I could come and partake of your little garden goods!
You go girl!
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