Our Magical Garden

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

More lavender lovelies

These wonderful little dolls
Posted by Karen at 6:21 AM

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Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you could just have them plant a garden.
~ Robert Bault

Welcome to Our Magical Garden, a blog chronicling our first summer as gardeners in a community garden plot.


Resources

  • 5 Orange Potatoes - Herbal activities for kids
  • Canadian Gardening Kids Projects
  • CWF Wild about Gardening
  • Gardening activities for kids - The Crafty Crow
  • Household items for the garden
  • Kids Gardening
  • Kitchen Garden Planner
  • My square foot garden
  • You Grow Girl

Recipes to try

  • Blackberry Rhubarb Jam
  • Raspberry tarts
  • Chives and Herb Yogurt Cheese
  • Raspberry lemonade

Harvest count

  • Carrots - one tiny test one that Sara ate
  • Cucumbers -5
  • Herbs - various cuttings
  • Peas and beans - 3 quarts
  • Raspberries - 5 quarts or so
  • Rhubarb - 10+ stalks from our plant
  • Tomatoes - 3 large plus a few small green
  • Wild Strawberries - handfuls
  • Yellow Cherry Tomatoes -50+ so far
  • Zucchini -3

Garden chores this week

  • trim buckwheat - DONE
  • plant more lettuce, spinach and carrots - DONE
  • stake and tie zucchini
  • find different way to stake tomatoes
  • weed - DONE for now anyway
  • make sign for blueberry bush
  • make sign for faiy garden - DONE
  • make sign for wildflower patch - DONE
  • get more rocks to ring beds

Blog Archive

  • ►  2011 (1)
    • ►  March (1)
  • ▼  2010 (22)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ▼  July (15)
      • The snack garden?
      • More lavender lovelies
      • Patience...is hard
      • Our Morning Routine
      • Lovely Lavender
      • Visits from the Fairies
      • In the eye of the beholder
      • Yummmmm
      • Late Veggies
      • Six weeks in the garden
      • Company in the garden
      • More colour for the garden
      • Colour in the garden today
      • Windchimes
      • The plot after a month away
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (4)

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