So, our new house has a beautiful yard. It is huge and is alot of work but we are really enjoying the gardening aspect. Get this... you can actually dig a hole without days of water before hand. This is a new concept to us desert dwellers. We were really excited to try our luck at vegetable gardening since the property already had some fenced and raised flower beds. And a visit from Audrey to help us get started was perfect. The kids were all involved in the planting. We watered the plants and they were doing so well... until the naughty squirrels got to it all. Slowly our plants were being chomped away at. Although, we had one head of lettuce that seemed to grow quite large. So, we went out to the garden with our basket, picked it, washed it and made a salad. We were all so eager and excited to eat our own lettuce. Why hadn't the squirrels eaten this one head? We soon found out! We took one bite of that salad and quickly spit it out. Apparently it was a more bitter type of lettuce and letting it grow so large made it even more nasty! Oh well, we learned alot and have found a way to keep the squirrels out so next spring we will try it again!
Blank slate...
Nathan helped
Planting
Natalee helped
It looked like this for about 2 weeks before the squirrels found their new buffet!
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