Because everyday should be Earth day

                                                                  

We didn't do much to celebrate Earth Day this year.  No elaborate shirts or plantings.  It fell on a Sunday that happened to be the end of a long weekend up north at the Destination Imagination State finals.   

 The only thing we did do was find a place for our new "unless" stepping stone that Evan and I made a week or so ago.  It doesn't look exactly like the one in the book or movie that surrounds the spot for the last Truffala tree, but it gets the point across. 

  Unless someone like you

cares a whole awful lot,

nothing's ever going to get better.

It's not.

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

It turned out super cute, just like the little guy that made it.

Runts

We pulled the carrots from our garden today. I don't think we should have wasted space growing carrots. They didn't really turn out stellar.

I picked some tomatoes too. We actually had two red ones! The only two large red ones from our whole garden.

We have some refiguring and tweaking to do for next year. I plan on trying again. The kids really enjoyed it and it wasn't a ton of work. Hmm...maybe we should have worked a little more and maybe would have seen better results. I need to research a bit over the winter months. One thing I know for sure - we won't be growing carrots next year.

Bounty

We picked some beans from our garden today. Ten beans. Ten beans is all we have to show for all of our work so far. I had to put up more netting today because now I think the rabbits are getting in and nibbling on the budding vegetables. I think we have managed to keep the deer away with our net system, but the whole thing looks like some complex fish trap and it is extremely hard to get near the plants and weed and do whatever else we have to do on a daily basis. Inspect for remains of what critters ate the night before is what it seems like we do mostly.

I keep reminding myself that this is the first year we have tried this and eventually we will figure out what we are doing. I hope we get more than our ten beans out of this garden or I am not so sure.

The beans were really good. The kids and I each devoured our two and a half beans a piece. I guess that makes it seem pretty worth it.