September 7th Garden Day!

We had a beautiful garden day today - perfect weather! We watered, weeded, checked out the compost, and harvested beans and tomatoes! Next time we may even be able to pick the carrots! See you then!

 The sunflowers are getting so large, they are starting to droop.

 This sunflower is just about ready to bloom!

 Rebecca, Hannah, and Sasha picking beans!

 A bright and small sunflower.

Lamb's ear in the petting garden!

 Rebecca weeded diligently today!

 Sasha and Hannah weeding the petting garden!

 More weeding!

 Watering the beans!

 The tomato plants have grown in exponentially!

 Cosmos looking lovely - or as Hannah called them today, the "gizmos"!

 Hannah watering the nasturtiums!

 The zinnias at the edge of the garden are looking brilliant.

 Watering the sunflowers!

Mammoth sunflowers - growing bigger than Rebecca!

Garden Day, August 8th!

This morning we had another garden day and though it looked like rain, we stayed dry! Today we picked weeds, harvested purple beans and cherry tomatoes, explored the garden, and painted garden gnomes! We'll see you next time on Thursday, August 22nd!

 Hannah's purple bean

 Sarah looking for beans!

 Zinnias looking gorgeous!

 More zinnias!

 Rebecca did a great job pulling lots of weeds for us today!

 Our cherry tomatoes are ripening!

 

Our marigolds are looking lovely, too!

 

 Rebecca painting her garden gnome.

 The cucumbers are getting bigger!

 Hannah demonstrating how tall the corn is growing!

 Logan painting his vampire gnome.

 Sadie and Chloe painting their gnomes.

 Our harvest for the day!

 Sadie's beautiful gnome!

 We found some bugs!

 Logan's finished vampire gnome!

 We found some mysterious insect eggs...

 Rebecca pulled up a serious weed!

Chloe's finished gnome!

First Cultivating Kids Garden Day or 2013!

Our first Cultivating Kids Garden Day was a success! We planted mammoth sunflower seeds in  easy-to-make newspaper pots. Kids put together two newspaper pots with sunflower seeds in them - one for our garden at the library and one of their own to bring home. 

 Bennett filling up his newspaper pot with soil.

 Devon planting some seeds!

Max, William, Zachariah, and Gideon working on their seedlings!

Next time, we will hopefully be able to be outside in the nice weather as our next Garden Day is Saturday, May 25th! Join us from 10-11 for planting outside and other gardening fun! Let us know if you have any questions - you can always give us a call at 335-7549!