I’m Sold!
I posted recently about my adventure in Square Foot Gardening. WELL, I am completely sold! My gardens are growing like wildfire!! I wanted to show you all some pictures of this very successful homeschool project we’ve got going on around here… and I will update often (as I have something up update!!).
We built the boxes and planted the gardens on May 17th:
May 30th:
And again from June 5th:
And today, June 10th:
I can’t imagine a more successful garden story at this point!!! We do NO work. Once every few days I go out there and pinch off the plant “suckers” (those little sprouts between the boughs of the tomato/pepper plants which don’t produce fruit, just sap the plants growing energy) and take some pictures and I’m done. Seriously… it’s been THAT easy! I have flower buds on EVERY plant except the brocoli and the eggplants so far… yes, even my zuchini and cukes have flower buds…. my tomatoes are COVERED in them. Even my strawberries might get a fruit or two this summer… who knows!
On another note… it’s definately SUMMER here (this past weekend we saw 30 degrees celsius with humidity ranging somewhere above 90 percent!!). Seems like only yesterday the kids were climbing the snowbanks onto the ROOF, but this weekend we were off at the splash park… Canadian weather is so dramatic! LOL!
^^Chaeli running to save herself from the spray ~ Greyson running *into* the spray, LOL! ^^
I love how different my kids are… keeps things interesting!
On a side note: Kenzi’s end of year evaluation is on the 25th of June… so it’s crunch time on portfolios and finishing up projects. Busy, busy around here!!! I’m curious to know what others do for portfolios (or if you do them at all, what method of “evaluation” to you employ in YOUR homeschool? I’d love to hear your comments!!! :o)
Blessings!