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Rainy Days and Mondays...


By Jane Deere (Visit website)







We had a beautiful weekend to get out in the garden and work; the only problem ~ it rained almost all night Friday and the garden was one big mud pit!  The other problem ~ we were short one tall farm-hand.  Quinton went to help with a youth retreat for our Church, so it was just me 'n the kids.  I had so many plans for the garden this weekend...I was a little bummed out that we couldn't get them all done.  I ended up finding a few projects that the kids and I could do all by ourselves. 


I don't know if I mentioned it before, but Quinton and I built a "bean house" frame out of some old bean towers and extra galvanized pipe.  Our intention is that we will succession plant pole beans all growing season so that we can harvest a beaucoup o' beans for fresh eating and freezing.  Plus, they're fun easy to grow because they continuously produce beans all season long.  It's especially fun and rewarding for the kids.




Anywho...the beans have started to come up and need more places to climb. Quinton bought some plastic grid fencing from Wally-World for another project and had plenty left over for me to swipe and use on the bean house.  The kids and I zip-tied the fencing all long the bottom half of the structure so that the pole beans are able grab onto it and start their climb.  Hopefully we'll see the bean house covered in solid bean vines and beautiful flowers.  This particular variety (Prize Winner or Scarlet Runner) has beautiful red-orange flowers! 








Here's a closeup of the Scarlet Runner bean blooms...so pretty!






I have to say...I've got some great little helpers!






Ray is great with his hands and loves to help put things together.




Here's the finished product so far...






We also tried our first carrot of the season!  These are a baby variety called "little finger"






We weren't sure if they were really ready to harvest yet, so we just pulled one and decided to try it.  We washed it well, lightly peeled it, then trimmed off the top and bottom, then quartered it.






I was amazed at how sweet they smelled.  I don't know how to explain it...they had a strong smell of earthy carrots and they tasted great!  Really good and slightly sweet.  We all thought that they could stand to stay in the ground for at least another week to develop more flavor.  We'll test them again later this week to see if they're ready.








Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.






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