A New Garden

This year we have decided to try a serious attempt at gardening. When we moved into this house, we decided that the large garden towards the rear of the lot was way too large for our use. It became a major weed patch, so we decided to convert the old vegetable garden into our xeriscape (that is zereescape, not zeroscape). Now that Cooper is getting older, we decided that it would be beneficial to teach him where vegetables come from. So we have decided to make a different type of garden, more suitable for our family. We made 3 plots. One is 4'x4' and the other two are 3'x4'. We will update the blog with new garden photos over the course of the summer, but for now, enjoy the garden planting photos.

I was planting the first seeds in the garden.


Cooper saw me planting the seeds and he really wanted to help. So he grabbed a handful of carrot seeds and threw them into the garden. It will be interesting to see where the carrots end up growing.


Dude! Pull up your pants kid!


Cooper found a coffee mug to play with. Although it broke, he enjoyed playing with it.


He took water from his bottle and poured it into his coffee mug.


He also enjoyed sitting in his chair, putting his hand in the water and then drinking the water.


When it was time to spray the gardens, Cooper was fascinated by the spraying water. He ran under the water and wanted me to spray him. By the end, he was soaked. We will need to get Cooper a sprinkler to play with this summer.


Sometime during the day, Cooper decided to taste the dirt in the gardens. It must have tasted good.


Cooper still getting sprayed.


Cooper was so soaked from the garden sprayer, that we stripped him down to the diaper before bringing him inside. He loved walking around the house in the diaper.


After the bath, Cooper had some juice and he was ready to play again.