Growing Places Garden Project

We were so excited this year to be accepted to participate in the Growing Places Garden Project- a local program helping families build, plant and learn how to grow a vegetable garden! A group of volunteers, including the president of the local garden club, her husband and their daughter, along with the leader Lisa, came early one Saturday morning and helped us put together this beautiful garden! We are given a mentor to mentor us through the growing season and walk us through the process! We are quite excited to see what we can grow!

Before the work begins!

The girls attempt to climb the garden frames before they are reminded that this is not a jungle gym and they are not allowed on top of them!

The dirt is delivered

"Wow! Look at all that dirt we can play in!"
In all seriousness, the dirt was beautiful dirt! Our plants should have no problem growing in this stuff!

Laying the frames in the correct spots

The girls lay each newspaper and shovel each shovelful of dirt in just.the.right.spot!

Newspapers are laid to prevent weeds from growing

Keeping Little Man out of trouble

Climbing Mount Dirt!

The girls have loads of fun filling their buckets with dirt and dumping it in the boxes!

Lisa, the head of our project, sprinkles in organic "Chickity Doo Doo" fertilizer and vermiculite

Mommy's little helper "raking!"

Raking out the dirt

Planting the seeds with our mentor!

All fenced in to keep the deer and rabbits out!

Finished product! We were able to plant:
Snap Peas
Swiss Chard
Lettuce
Kale
Cabbage
Carrots
Beets

We already are seeing some growth! When it stops raining out, I'll take a picture and post an update!