Blossoms and Bees

What Happened?

Well in May our plants looked like this, then it rained for a whole 2 1/2 weeks and now look at them....

I made a poem for it too...

Our plants looked droopy the whole spring long

and they could not bear the heat.

We watered and watered the whole time the heat beat down at them.

Then the summer rain began.

For two summer weeks, the rained fell and watered all the plants.

When it cleared up, my brother and I went out to check on the plants;

that night we had salad for dinner.

The next morn, my brother brought in a strawberry to eat,

and the next morn you woudn't believe your eyes!

Two ripe tomatoes from the garden that never ever worked for us.

And the basil?

Don't get me started.....   

The Very First Berry

Christian picked one, perfect, beautiful strawberry this morning.  All that dirt, all that manual labor, all that care...Isn't it lovely?

We're going to do what?

Yesterday, Christian picked enough greens to make a salad large enough to feed all of us at dinnertime.  This is the first time since moving to this house that our vegetable garden has yielded much of anything. Nicholas was not quite a year old when we moved here.

I set the salad bowl on the table with much fanfare.

Me: This is going to be the freshest salad you've ever eaten in your whole life!

Stephen:  Why?

Me: Because Christian picked it from the backyard.  No truck.  No grocery store...

Nicky:  (blinking furiously and looking incredulous) We're going to eat the PLANTS?!

Then, eyeing the bowl:  It looks just like what we get in the box at Costco.

After tasting it:  It tastes just like the box salad.  And it's the PLANTS?

Who knew plants were salad-in-the-making? Clearly, there is much nature education in the organic gardening department still to be done...