Thursday, January 20, 2011

Our Garden

This year we decided to build an elevated garden box to have our own vegetable garden.  My husband and my father designed a square box that would serve as our garden and keep the tortoises (we have 2 California Desert Tortoises as pets) away from the garden.  It has been a lot of fun watching the veggies grows from seed and starts.  The kids love it and are happy to help take care of the garden.
We now have our winter crop growing strong, I know, winter crop sounds weird to most of the country.  Here in SoCal we can grow many things straight through winter.  Right now we have different kinds of lettuce, spinach, radishes, and carrots.  It is so fun to send the kids out with a bowl and my garden scissors to harvest our dinner salad each evening!
The kids love the radishes; they grow fast and are ready to eat immediately.  I highly recommend growing radishes if you have children.  They are ready to pull out of the ground in about a couple of weeks.  It doesn’t matter if your kids like them or not, they are excited to see the transformation from seed to red radish.  My kids will now eat them, just because they grew them…hmm, great idea for picky eaters, we all want our kids to eat more veggies, so just grow them!
You don’t have to have a large yard to have a garden, ours is quite small.  Just a tiny area of dirt will do.  You can also have a container garden; my aunt shared with me how she had a container garden made from recycled containers on her patio when she lived in Santa Barbara.  Try some seeds anywhere, it is fun!

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