GREEN

I have not been too personally involved in our garden in years past.  I am kind of a sedentary person and am a bit girly in the fact that I don't like dirt under my nails.  But this year, in an effort to grow more of our food (which has been a goal of mine for a while) I am getting involved.  I also hope that the added activity in my days will help with my weightloss lifestyle change.

So I will be out pulling weeds and watering, planting, raking and composting.  I will have the kids help and we will do a gardening unit study along with it.  I hope to post some pictures through out the process as well. 

To start I will show you our plants we started inside so far...

It's  mostly bell peppers at this point.  We did start a few other seeds just for fun though none of them need to be started yet.  I haven't gotten my tomatoes yet or they would be there as well.  I hope they come soon because they should be started soon.

Here is our garden area (newly hoed though we will rototill before actually planting)

And here is the new compost area my husband built this weekend.

We have had bad luck in the past, maybe because we just weren't adding enough "brown" to our green. I am having a homeschool chuck-wagon dinner next week and will have some bales of hay to put out here in the compost after that. I also will send the kids out to turn it each day as well. They love playing with rotting food and worms :) We will also use the hay to mulch in between plants to keep moisture in and weeds down.

So that is how we are coming so far...to see how others are going green.