I feel like we went directly from winter to summer.  One week it was 50 degrees, and the next week, it is 80 degrees!  I missed Spring, but am grateful winter is finally over.  My plants are getting acclimated to there new homes in the garden and we have started picking some of the herbs.

When were the kids were little, it was pretty easy to have them help with the weeding.  Their job was primarily to ‘look for worms’ -really I just wanted them to turn the earth over around the plants.  I then had to start paying them.  At first they were really cheap labor.  Basically whoever was the biggest helper, had a visit from the ‘yard gnome’ in the middle of the night.  Jamie was the one who was visited first – and he was shocked that the gnome was able to carry Lego package under his bed undetected.

Now, I have to say the girls really seem to relish their time in the garden working on the plants.  They really love being out there and watching everything grow and start to bear fruit.  One of our best discoveries last year was fried green tomatoes.  They were absolutely delicious and for weeks we feasted on them!!