We're Not Just Growing a Garden, We're Growing Children

As I mentioned before, the kids were off of school for fall break a couple weeks ago so Darren took a few days off work to be home with everyone. We were trying to decide what fun things we wanted to do while he was home and we decided to plant a garden! The kids were thrilled (jk)! At the same time, we planted our winter lawn. Darren had Truman spread the grass seed with our fancy push spreader, and then he had Lincoln and Reagan use buckets to spread the compost on top of the seeds. A funny note here, Lincoln and Reagan chose to use their Halloween buckets to do this job. I think they will be carrying pillow cases around to the houses this year. I'm still getting used to this blogging thing so I failed to get pictures of all of us with black hands and legs, but here are some pictures of the finished product.

We planted tomatos, bell pepers, broccoli, calliflower, squash, chives, jalapenos and lettuce.

Darren's form of pest control.

As for the title of this post, whenever one of the kids complained about the work we would tell them "We're not just growing a garden, we're growing children." It seemed to work because they eventually stopped complaining! Darren wants me to toll paint that on a sign so we can put it in the garden.

When we harvest our vegetables, I'll post about it again. If you don't hear anything more about it, then you'll know how successful we were. :o)