Saturday, January 24, 2009

Going Green
















We have been diligently working in our greenhouse the past few months. We have planted many different things such as carrots, lettuce, tomatos, green beans, sunflowers, cilantro, basil and oregano. After much hard work, we were finally able to eat some of the fruits of our labor. The lettuce is ready for harvesting! We celebrated this past Monday night with a delicious dinner of lettuce wraps!Then the following night by having a nice yummy salad. The babies and Jessi have truly been enjoying this little side project, diligently watering and checking almost daily on the new happenings inside. Taylor gets a little overzealous after watching Wayne pick weeds and thought a few plants were weeds and pulled them! We have decided to keep an eagle eye on her while we are in there. It has been fun to watch their reactions to everything growing and helping them to understand where food actually comes from. Here are a few pictures of the greenhouse and what is inside.

In this picture you can see the tomato plants (back left), green beans (back right), lettuce and carrots (center).

Besides gardening we have been enjoying the Arizona winter by hiking and daytrips. We went down to the Gila River to do some exploring one day. We took this drive down a long wash and at the end we came to a nice beach area to play and picnic with thr babies. Enjoy some photos of our day.




3 comments:

staceyhedman said...

LOVE the greenhouse, and the photo of you and the girls is adorable! You guys are doing everything I'm aspiring to do by this April/May - and hopefully a summer and fall of munching on our own yummy vegetables! Miss you! XO

Heather said...

Thanks!! I did love that picture of the babies and i too...You will be a great gardener!

TourBuggie said...

That is an awesome greenhouse. I bet the folks in the Mills are jealous, I know I am.