Updated Garden Pictures

We also have beans sprouting(yay!!) and tomatoes and green peppers started. We're hoping to plant the rest of our plants this afternoon! How's your gardening going?

More Garden-y Goodness...

This time in the form of *gardener* photos.

We've decided against raised bed gardens because a)I keep adding things that I want to grow and we're going to rapidly run out of bed space and b)they are pricey to build and we are at the tail end of paying down a BIG debt and don't have the cash to spare. We were going to rent a rototiller and till up a patch of the lawn but reason b strikes again :P Geo decided we should do it by hand; we started (and by we, I mean, GEO) busting up the grass today and the kids and I started getting the dirt free of weeds and grass chunks. I have pics of all of that and after the garden is completely dug up, I'll post before and after pics; however tonight I want you to see who the real hard worker in this family is...

Here we have farmer George (oddly enough, George MEANS farmer in Greek) working hard at breaking up the land...



Annnnnd here are the other three Witkowski's dinking around when we should have been working...oops :D





And there you have it; Geo is the worker of the bunch and we are the play-ers :)

Gardening Fun

Yesterday we planted our hills of pumpkins (six plants in total, though we'll see how that goes, one or two may be pulled out to let the others grow stronger) and today we planted peas. We had peas started in pots in the kitchen that we transplanted and then we planted another pack of peas from seed; my hope is that we'll be able to harvest peas for a longer time by doing it this way. The second set of peas is two weeks behind the first set, so hopefully that'll make a difference when it comes to picking them. Without further ado some crummy pictures of the pumpkins and peas! (he he)