Vegetable Gardening 101
The kids and I are researching how to grow vegetables in the Midwest. We are planning a garden and decided the library would be a good place to start. Thomas and Gabo talked to the librarian who directed them to the children’s gardening section and they promptly sat down to study their guides.
“I would like you to start taking notes about everything we need to know to grow our garden,” I said. So for the next half hour they were busy reading and writing.
After I put them to bed I decided to review their work. Thomas wrote: “Garden rosemary smells good, nice when attached to Christmas cards; sage good on top of chicken or pork; thyme is good in soup or in turkey or chicken stuffing; can be used as cough medicine; coriander or cilantro is good on hot dogs; sweet basil, you can make basil vinegar out of it; chives can be used in potato salads…”
Gabo also got a lot of good gardening tips: “Garden: What we need: soft soil, tomato bush seeds, cucumber bush seeds, lettuce, big rocks, lilypads, flowers, big long grass, and any type of fish, chives, potato, dill, cilantro, parsley, mint, onions, scallions, basil, green onions, corn, pumpkin, arctic lettuce, apple, beans, celery, carrots, watermelon…”
I guess our veggie garden will have some kind of pond in it and we will be doing a lot of cooking…”
May 5th, 2009 at 10:10 am
I love fresh fish!