Garden gone wild

It's what happens to an overly-excited novice gardener... I knew I was planting way too many things and way too close together... But I did it anyway!


We are still getting lots of tomatoes...


And I have a couple of bell peppers growing too!


Beans decided to make a walking path right along the green beans so most of those plants are trampled. Everything else is still coming along, though a little crowded.





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sowing with leah

Several weeks ago, Leah and her daddy went to the home improvement store to pick up a few things... and came back with a little project...

A Lightning McQueen planting kit. (Leah loves all things Cars and can spot the logo from a mile away!)

The kit came with some marigold seeds and soil, so she and dad got to work. I think they planted on 4/3.

I told her that her flower seeds would probably grow even faster if we put a nice worm in there to help the soil. She agreed and we dug up a "nice wormy" and Leah put him in the pot too.

In about 10 days the seeds had sprouted... and within 3 weeks we had a small plant.

4/27

Leah's main job was watering and making sure it was still growing taller.

...on 5/9...

In the meantime, she decided she wanted to plant something else, so she filled 2 more Leah-sized pots with dirt and we planted green beans and Swiss chard.

The day her first marigold bloom opened up, her green beans erupted the soil as well!

The Swiss chard was a fail.... I'm pretty sure we drowned it... so I transplanted some of my extra okra plants to that pot.

Leah with her marigolds, green beans and okra plants

Beans could have 40 dog bowls of fresh water, but she prefers to drink from puddles or straight from the watering can. She's just waiting for the pour...