This afternoon we walked the five blocks from school, whizzed through snacks, and began planting onions and potatos. I forgot one major item, however. The straw to cover the seed potatoes. Oops! Good thing it will be dark soon. I'll run and get the bales tomorrow.
Preston happily planted onions and potatos, then proceeded to chalk a sign for the garden. Dylan and Ally each laid out one potato each, but were totally disgusted by the site of the eyes. Too funny!
We had a bit of a water fight. Preston "accidentally" sprayed me, so I sprayed him back, then the other kids wanted in on it, so everyone got a bit wet. Mostly we just played limbo under the spray while we wet the beds after planting.
We edged the outer raised bed of greens with red onions to fight pests and a few pansies to attract pollinators. We filled the flower boxes attached to the raised potato bed with 9 pansies each. We couldn't find enough Spanish moss to fill behind the wire, so we used red cardboard pizza boxes - we thought it looked cool and Preston is sure bugs will flock to the garden "cause bugs, butterflies, and hummingbirds love red." My hubbie isn't sold on the look, but we hope in time he'll come around.
After we finished garden chores, we ran around in the yard like lunatics - as usual - until Margie picked up her kiddos. We played soccer, ran obstacle courses, did some swinging, played in the sandbox. Nothing like a beautiful day to knock kids (and ourselves) out at nighttime.
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