Gardening with Gram

I've never had a beautiful garden. My mom's almost always got one though. Not to mention all her various rose and flower gardens/landscaping spread across her acres of land. Here it is February and she's still gardening and trying to get my city slicker kids to help. I was sort of surprised at how inept they were. :)

But I guess that's not something I've really taught them. And it's been a while since I've had to any yard work as we were living in a vacation home complex in Florida.

Before that, well, I only had to feel guilty about not gardening for a few months out of the year in Utah. That was one good thing about the snow. No guilt in the winter. Anyway, I would love to have a great vegetable garden soon. In fact...I'll hope for this spring. Maybe we'll live somewhere of our own by then. If not, I'm sure to have one with Mom.

This is how you do it.

Justin got the hang of it.

I think this is such a pretty picture of Emily. After I took it I wished there wasn't an ugly worm in there to mess it up. Anyway, she thought this was pretty cool. Being the only girl, shouldn't she have the following look on her face and not Ian?

Okay, so I guess I made my kids sound like they've never done yard work. They have, but they were so "out of their element" out there actually working, it made me realize how long it's been. Sigh.
Sadie was a big help too.