this year's garden...& soup...

we've got a much bigger garden this summer...a serious upgrade from the raised veggie bed we had last year...

i already mentioned how this was actually a mother's day gift from my parents...it's come along quite well since then! the girls have loved helping me out...making sure all the plants get plenty of water...

even weeding...

this is what the garden looked like, the day before we left from the beach...

& this is what it looked like, the day we got back...a week & a day later!

Gabby's bean plant is doing soooo well (she brought this home from school some time in spring - 1st grade)...

the bugs sure do like Jaden's cabbage plant! i've dusted it since then, & it's already looking much better (this is also a plant that came home from school in the spring - 3rd grade)...

the squash & cucs are going crazy already!

but here's what i'm really anxious for!

tomatoes & corn...the best summer foods!

besides helping me water & weed, the girls also enjoy playing with the clippings & weeds that come out of the garden...as well as wild onions & whatever other goodies they find around the yard...

making their infamous "soup"!
(an old favorite past time of theirs)...

just the other day, Corinn asked me if i could make sure to save any veggies that the bugs ate, or that wasn't good to eat...they want to make sure & get it in that soup recipe of theirs! ;0)

so tell me...mary, mary...quite contrary...

y u buggin?

~lol~

i mean, how does ur garden grow?

do u go all out? or just a simple veggie bed? maybe those cool upside-down-hangy-thingies?

r u harvesting yet? or just getting started?