Our root vegetable garden is doing really well.  We started our project using a carrot, beet, parsnip, sweet potato, rutabaga, and turnip.  A picture of when we first started it can be found here.  Just today we had to toss out the rutabaga, for some reason it had rotted underneath, very stinky!

Everything has started to sprout except for the parsnip; it's rooting underneath but nothing on top yet, I'm wondering if it's going to.  By far the turnip is the one that has really taken off!  It's amazing what it has done in just a week.

Also, the beet is really doing well.  I have to say the leaves are really cool looking, got red veins going through them (can't see that too well in the picture).

We will complete another Plant Journal Page tomorrow to document the changes.

Also Hannah's bean plant I think is growing to play the part of the beanstalk in Jack and the Beanstalk!  She's been thrilled to see how fast it's shooting up.  Her wheat seed is coming up too and Alex's carrots, but I'll wait until they are more visible to take a picture.

And her violet that she collected on our nature walk is really flourishing.  No signs of blooming yet though.

However, her little baby crocus has finished it's blooming and is now starting to droop over (you can see it in the background of the above picture).  We will plant the corm outside after danger of frost.  We like to remember it this way:

The Crocus

by Walter Crane

The golden crocus reaches up

To catch a sunbeam in her cup.

The first morning it bloomed, we read this poem.  The sun was shining outside, so the girls and I ran out on our back deck and held our hands up like little cups trying to catch the sunbeams!  We are so wishing for spring!  At first Alex looked at us like we were crazy, but guess what, he went rushing outside right after us to catch a little sunbeam for himself!