Gardening

Our garden needed some much deserved attention today. Just after church and a quick lunch, we all put on our play/garden clothes and made our way to the backyard. Our monster tomato plants had many green tomatoes on them, but we decided to make room for our fall plants. So, we picked the tomatoes with hopes of making fried green tomatoes and pulled up the plants. If I had studied him harder, I may have seen Scott shed a tear. It pains him to say goodbye to our tomato plants. He is one tomato loving guy.

I loved being in the garden today with Scott. Spending time together as we worked on this task was meaningful and sweet- not to mention super productive. We worked for hours as our kids just played in the yard and in the front of our home with neighbors. What a gorgeous day it was!

We pulled up several other plants that were just about done. We left our eggplant. It has ten eggplants growing on it and it is still producing flowers! Scott tilled up the soil and gave us a fresh start for our fall garden. I planted a section of kale seeds and decided to call it a day. This means there will be much more planting this week because we bought onions, sugar snap peas, lettuce, spinach, and chard seeds.

As we worked, our little ones took some photos.

Here is a bowl of green tomatoes, two kinds of peppers and our butternut squash.

Brayden enjoying a caterpillar.

Sweet Maddie cleaning off the slide for her and her brothers to play on.