Yesterday we planted red leaf lettuce in one of the deck containers. Caya was very excited and quickly delved into helping dig holes and filling them back in. Kili, wanted to be involved, but mostly just stuck her hands in the dirt and tried to eat as much as possible. After finishing with the lettuce Caya said we should look for worms, so look for worms we did! We found many worms, larvae, and grubs in our backyard rain garden under the leaf litter. Caya didn't want to touch the "wiggly worms", but she was really interested in digging through the leaves and dirt to find them. Last night as I was tucking her into bed she had so many questions about the worms and bugs: "Why did they curl up when we touched them?", "What do they do?", "What do they eat?", "What eats them?" This led to a really great, 3-yr old level, ecological conversation about food webs and healthy soil. Day-1 was a gardening success!
Backyard Gardening Caya picking and eating our first raspberries Well, strawberry season has been pretty crappy here in WI this year. The unseasonably warm spring weather caused the berries to ripen before they had fully grown. Good news, we already have red raspberries in our garden and the girls have been enjoying picking and eating them straight off the vine! Note to self - berries are a great introduction to gardening for young kiddos. Our raised veggie garden Our raised vegetable garden is doing really well. I had to put a fence around it since the rabbits were eating the beans, peppers, swiss chard and spinach. The squirrels continue to jump over the fence, into the garden, but I don't really know how to stop that. Ideally, I didn't want to fence in the garden because it makes it less accessible to the girls, but we were starting to lose a lot of our plants. Hopefully, I can take the fence down later in the season once everyt...
Great idea. Can you comment on how to keep dirt out of Kili's mouth while you garden?
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