Research

This week our seed packets arrived for our summer gardens. We have had fun dreaming about the warmer weather and making plans for all of our flowers and vegetables.
Jack has been doing a bit of research on his own. He is learning about Growing Vegetable Soup. We are planting most of the vegetables that are written about in this great book by Lois Ehlert. We have visions of Jack playing on a blanket in the backyard while we toil in the garden this summer. Hopefully in 2012 he will be interested in helping us dig, plant, water, harvest and cook our vegetables. Until then, he is just like his daddy. He is planning, researching, and learning all he can before we take on this project.

In the past we have procrastinated and purchased seeds at the last minute at Home Depot. This year we ordered everything we wanted as soon as the seed catalogs arrived last month. We are hoping that the extra planning helps us to have a fruitful harvest this summer. I am pretty sure that I will be more excited to get out there every day this year since I won't have a big belly in my way!
For those who are interested, these are the seeds that we ordered:

Vegetable garden: Tomato, yellow squash, zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, pickling cucumber, carrot, peas, parsnips, Asian greens (toy choi + baby pakchoi) green bean, and yellow bush bean.

Cutting garden: Echinacea, sunflower, snapdragon(2varieties), salvia, zinnias(2 varieties), lavatera, larkspur, cosmos, coneflower, and agastache.

I can't wait to see how it all turns out. Oh, and Pinetree Garden Seeds accidentally sent us corn seeds too.  If we can find the space we are going to plant it.  It could be kind of fun!

I'll let you know how the garden grows. And I'm sure we will be posting pictures of Jack eating the vegetables!