We began our summer long science experiment today...our square foot garden!  Daddy has been busy gathering all the ingredients to make our soil mix.  He called around to get the best price on the different things we needed (vermiculite, peat moss, and a bit of compost) and then drove around to get them too.  Today he mixed everything up on a big tarp in the backyard and we all helped in some way.  Here are some photos to show the process.

DH adding some of our "homemade" compost

Now some peatmoss

Mixing it all up...our tarp started to get a  hole in it so we had to be a bit gentle with it!

We have three boxes in the yard and another up on our deck.  The one on the deck will be for lettuce, tomatoes and other salad type veggies.  Our seed order arrived last week and the children were very excited.  We had to talk about NOT opening the packages.    We hope to plant during Memorial Day Weekend and then wait and pray for things to grow!  I'll post pictures of the process all summer.