Little garden
Hillbilly Housewife wrote: Last week, the kids and I took our styrofoam egg cartons and planted some seeds. We planted some sunflower seeds, some parsley seeds, some lettuce seeds, and some peas.
We also planted some garlic, and some potatoes in our front yard's flower beds.
This week, we're re-doing our backyard... slowly... we have 2 bags of cow manure and a bag of earth that's been sitting in our little wagon for a couple days.  The kids are REALLY excited about their seeds... the pease are already about 2 inches high, so ar ethe sunflowers... But I don't remember which of the two cartons I'd planted the parsley, or the lettuce... but one of them is coming out great, the other is just beginning to barely poke out of the earth.
So once we're pretty much done revamping the backyard, we're going to move the potatoes and garlic we planted in the flowerbeds to the back, in the spot we're making for the "garden", along with the other seeds we planted. It's really neat to see them get excited - the peas' sprouts were out within a day... really good for kids!
C&K*s Mommie replied: how exciting! 
My black thumb will not allow for growing anything, I could kill artificial plants!
KUP on the progress of the your and the kids garden.
booey2 replied: Sounds great, our boys love to garden too, we have flowerbeds and vegetables and raspberries. They love to help with everything from getting the beds ready to actually planting the stuff. I may have to try from seeds next spring, sounds like they will get a kick out of it. Thanks for the idea.
Terri
coasterqueen replied: Gardens are great for kids. We put in two raised garden beds this year and Kylie LOVES it. We go out and look at it every morning and night to see the changes and we weed, water, etc together. Megan just likes playing in the dirt.  We have vegetables and then we have wild berries growing along side our property lines. Kylie likes to go over and pick them off and just eat them.  
MissyKay2005 replied: It is soo good to get the kids into gardening! I wish we were able too but we rent right now. Some day when we have our own place. There is nothing like home grown veggies!  It teaches the kids to eat right and its fun too.
booey2 replied:
Karen, glad your raised beds are working out, I remember you asking about them a while ago. As for the berries, she and Thomas would get along great, we had to hold him back last night from eating the not so ready ones off the bushes, luckily there were enough ripe ones for them each to have at least 2.
Terri
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I'd love to have berries... unfortunately there are too many critters around. Squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, evem birds come and eat them all.  I live in the same area that I lived in before moving to joliette last year... and we'd had strawberries in the yard... but we never actually saw a berry go past green, they'd always be gone. So I didn't bother with them here, though I'd love to
coasterqueen replied:
Oh the garden beds are fabulous!!! I'm trying to talk DH into building two more next year. One solely for corn, right now it's cramped in with other stuff and the other one for strawberries (Kylie's all time favorite). They are just expensive to build and fill, that's all. 
Kylie is constantly trying to pick the non-ripe ones as well.  But berries aren't the only thing I can keep her from. She keeps trying to eat my daylillies as well. Why, you ask?  Because her grandmother, who's really big into organic and living off of the earth, showed her that she could eat flowers (certain ones) and they are good. Blah! Doesn't sound good to me. Kylie says they are good, though. The problem is living out in the country we have to spray for bugs in certain areas (where my daylillies are) and that means they aren't edible. Dh is trying to find a 'safer' solution to this, but I'm still not sure I want her eating my flowers.
coasterqueen replied:
Are you sure? I almost think I would give it a try  I live in the country where rabbits, deer, fox, coyotes, all kinds of critters roam and for some reason think my land is a playground of theirs and our berries do fine. Although our berries are wild.
holley79 replied: Oh how cool. I can't wait till Annika is told enough to play in the dirt with me. Maybe I'll go steal Nicoles kids for a day.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Hmmm.... maybe I will try it again...... but when I say "yard", I actually mean my 20 x 20 patch of half-a$$ed grass
We live in a condo, so our "yards" are pretty small... and our lawns get mowed for us. However...after seeing my mother's brand new yard, that no longer has any grass in it but rather all patio stones and surrounded by a red cedar mulch with plants in it and stones, I'm thinking I want to do womehting similar and not bother with the guys coming in every tuesday to mow the lawn and move all my stuff (Little Tykes red and yellow car, a little slide thing, a spring horse, my patio chairs... they take everything off the grass and cram it all on the stones... )
I'm thinking of doing that...all in stones... and then have just the garden.
Do strawberries grow well in pots? I have 4 large rectangle widowsill type planters that I'd like to hang on my fence... i'd put the berries in there... 
holley79 replied:
I had hanging baskets of Strawberries and they did really well. My MIL plants strawberries in those black containers that seperate. (do I make sense here?) They grew realyl well there also.
coasterqueen replied: I think hanging baskets do well, I'm sure pots would work as well.
Yeah, my DH would like to concrete our 3.5 acres of land so we don't have anything to 'tend' to. He said he'd even pay extra for them to put green dye in the concrete mix. But I know what you are talking about the grass thing. Living out in the country with wooded areas surrounding a good portion of our land, our grass is mainly weeds. It would just be too outrageously expensive to lay sod or to try to grow seed and combat the weeds. I keep trying to tell myself that but beg DH every year to do it. He doesn't.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: lol
i can't imagine having to tend a 3,5 acre yard.... lol
we have some land near joliette that we haven't tended to yet - i'm not too sure what's going on with that..... and we have an acre in Nova Scotia that hasn't been tended to in over 30 years. It was my grandparents'.... and they gave it to me. I just have to pay the taxes on it. Someday, we'll have something built on it. Someday.
MommyToAshley replied: How fun... I bet the kids really enjoy the gardening. What a great project to do together.
Maybe next year we will try a little garden. I wanted to this year, but was afraid we wouldn't have the time to devote to it.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: All I have is time.... too bad i'm always stuck with my kids... lol
Kaitlin'smom replied: okay now I want a little garden. When is a good time to plant what? I do like the idea of starting with seeds in something then moving them later. Do you keep them inside or outside?
Hillbilly Housewife replied: the little peas I planted sprouted in a day... and they're about 2 inches high now. Sunflowers too... I planted them last week sometime, I don't remember exactly which day... but I think it was Friday, because DH was home sick.
I think they're good for the kids - because the sprouts change each day
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