Our garden is growing! I love to see how it has progressed each day. My little brothers are in this picture. They have been very helpful with the weeding and watering. I have really enjoyed gardening so far. It’s nice to see green out there. The tomatoes, cucumbers, green onions, carrots and morning glories are all  growing well.  We didn’t have room for the corn and the chives and sunflowers didn’t sprout, unfortunately. We’ve been getting a lot of rain lately too, which is a huge help.

My mom took this picture, you can see more of her shots here.

I went away for a few days last week, and when I returned my brothers showed me that the green beans had started growing. I was so excited when I saw them. We also put some tomato plants in our garden recently. Hopefully they will grow right and we’ll have a fruitful crop of tomatoes.

This picture I took today of the bean plants. The carrots and onions I planted have sprouted as well but they are too small for me to take a picture of them. There are some brave little weeds poking up too. It din’t take long for them to show up on their own.

I look forward to seeing some produce from our garden. One of my favorite things about gardening is seeing all the stages of a plant’s life. Isn’t it wonderful how one little seed can grow into a big tomato plant, producing multiple tomatoes that are full of even more seeds? This all points to the Creator of the earth that commanded living things to be fruitful and multiply. God is so amazing!

A couple of weeks ago we decided to do a raised bed garden. With raised beds, we can use better soil. Our soil from the ground is just too sandy and rocky for a vegetable garden. Dad helped us make boxes for the raised beds and we filled them with soil. Now we are working on getting the  fence up around the plot.

I tried starting my tomato seeds indoors a couple of months ago. The first batch sprouted and then died not long after. The second batch hardly sprouted at all.  I have found that I don’t have much of a green thumb. I have a new respect for people that can actually grow something from a seed. Oh well, I hope that the rest of the things I plant will turn out all right.

My brother Luke and I have been planning a garden since fall of last year. I just picked out the seeds this week and I have been reading books about gardening from the library. I am getting really excited about starting the garden. I am planning on starting some of the seeds indoors. Pretty soon it will be time to start the tomatoes. Besides tomatoes, I’m going to try growing green beans, carrots, green onions, corn (I’m not so sure that will work out), chives, marigolds, morning glories, and sunflowers.

It is fun learning about gardening, and the more I learn, the more excited I get about it.  I’ll try to keep you updated on the progress of my garden. I am so looking forward to spring!