Trey, Mindy, Henry and Lewis

It’s that time of year again…Time to plant the garden. This year we have decided to go with a smaller version of gardens of years past. But, we still planted 40 ft. of bush beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, basil, squash and watermelon. The kids helped most with the beans. We strung a rope to guide us and then used a 4 in. block to equally space the seeds.

Then it was off to plant the squash with daddy:

Then, Henry and daddy planted the cucumbers:

Of course, everything then needed to be watered. The kids very much enjoyed playing in the water:

All in all we had a great time planting the garden. I won’t say that convincing Lewis the bean seeds weren’t “jellybeans” wasn’t a challenge, but once we got past that…