It's Official...

We're farmers. At least, according to Kate, we're definitely farmers. I suspect that our new 200 square foot (I'm guessing here, because I really have no idea how big it is) garden will not give us any farmstead tax breaks. And I'm a little concerned that my girl may one day marry a farmer, expecting an easier, simplier, raised-garden kind of lifestyle. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

For now, we're farmers in charge of a brand-spankin'-new, designed-and-built-by-Steve original, raised garden. I can't stop looking out my morning room window, just to get a peek at my tiny tomato plantlings, the graceful strawberry runners, and the carrots? onions? weeds? sprouting up in a row (I'm not exactly sure what those things are, because I handed the seed packets to the girls and said, "put them in a row, ladies."). Our haphazard planting should make harvest time a little more interesting and I, for one, am looking forward to it.

This gardening thing is such fun. After last year's infamous "overstuffed pot" debaucle, I am excited to have space to plant. But, I guess it is true that no matter how much space you have, you will fill it (or in my case, "overstuff" it). Ha! Let the overstuffing begin....


I'm linking up to the Inadvertent Farmer's KinderGARDENS weekly post. I'm late, as usual. Did you expect otherwise? I think they are five weeks into the gardening posts, while this "farmstead" just got rolling. You know me...curling my hair, changing my clothes (or in this case, nagging my husband to build the garden). But better late than never, right? Check it out...there's tons of great gardening ideas for kids, including a bean teepee, sunflower houses, and so much more.

Edited to add: Kate just asked me when we were going to build a barn for our horse and cows. Let me be clear here...we do not have a horse and cows. I suspect that the gardening thing has led her to believe that we really are farmers. Oh my. I'd love to see the Homeowner's Association reviewing that proposal! We'd be the talk of the neighborhood for sure!