I'm going to start calling these posts "Green Monday" because every Monday, as part of our Science/Nature lessons, we take notice of all the green things growing in our house and do journal pages and other things for them.

First, an update on our Tabletop Root Vegetable Garden...It's coming along very nicely.  The turnip continues to be the one growing like wild.  Our parsnip has still not produced anything, so today it will probably be tossed.  The sweet potato has sprouted but is sure slow as molasses!  The kids both filled out a journal sheet which I had gotten from Amanda's free downloads at Hearts and Trees.

Hannah's bean and wheat plants are still flourishing.  She completed a Plant Journal Page for these measuring their growth, and this week labeling the parts of the bean plant, thanks to help from this pdf file on labeling plants that I found.

Alex also filled out a journal sheet for his carrots which are popping up all over the place; we will thin those out shortly.

Grandpa came over on Saturday and brought Hannah a present.  They had fun planting her new strawberry plant!

It's doing really well so far.

And yesterday, Grandpa brought us another present from his garden.....LOTS of Crocuses!!!  We'll be getting them outside in our landscaping soon.

Two weekends ago, we started some vegetable seeds indoors.  We will be having a very small vegetable garden outside in the spring.  The kids planted roma tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers, and basil (esp. for Mommy!).

It is also coming along quite nicely, everything has sprung up except for the bell peppers.

The system we are using we bought at Lowe's.  It has been great because it's self watering and has a cover that goes on top, so it simulates a greenhouse effect.

We have lots more vegetable seeds to plant, but it's still a bit early; also we have lots of flowers too to get started.  Hmm, better get out my gardening gloves!!

We had a lovely Green Hour Challenge this week that I'll should have posted about by tomorrow!