May. 20, 2008 - Makin' Progress in the Garden
we now have onions, sweet potatoes, "Bosnian" beans (given to us by our Bosnian neighbor, we couldn't understand what kind they really were 
), pole beans, tomatoes,peas, strawberries, butternut squash, eggplant, cucumber, zucchini and herbs planted, pumpkins are blooming, other things have buds on them, so we are hoping we get some fruit and veggies soon! Forgot to get garlic so I might see how expensive that is.
SIL is going to let us borrow her dehydrator and we are going to try to dehydrate some fruits and veggies. I've heard they store wonderfully and take up a lot less space than canned jars.
We are also going to try our hand at canning. I bought some jars and was Freecycled quite the bunch more (yay, Freecycle!) so that's also on the list of preparing the harvest and expanding my repetoire of domestic skills. 
Compost is composting away, and things are looking OK out there. Whew!
We have a chickadee nest in one of our Home Depot Kid's birdhouse projects, and a bunch of sticks in the other, but so far we have not seen a keeper. Well, there was a wren I think it was who was just a singing and a singing for almost a week out there, made me wonder if he was trying to attract a mate, poor thing, think he left.
Kids are having fun, trowel in hand. I love it when learning is real, and natural.
