Helping Hands in the Garden

This afternoon my children and I worked in our garden. We got most of the weeds under control and even got to start putting newspaper and straw down.

This is our third year to use this method of weed control and I sometimes wonder how we ever got along without using the newspaper and straw. Actually I do know, we had a weed fest and had to go hunting for our produce.

If you want to control weeds in your garden simply lay down newspaper in all the areas of your garden without plants and then cover the papers with straw.

I do recommend hoeing all of the weeds before you lay down the newspaper and straw. Otherwise, the weeds just might keep growing and poke right through the newspaper and straw.

Julia was a great help to me today. She got rid of lots of weeds. She also got rid of four okra plants, too. Oops. She might have actually done me a favor. The plants looked pretty sad and we aren’t too sure whether we actually like okra anyway. 🙂

Roscoe, our dog, tested out the straw. Yep, pretty comfy.

James was a big help as well. He has been trying out a new hairstyle. He thinks spiking his hair is kind of cool. I think he just wants to look like Janna. (Her hair stands straight up on its own.)

Roscoe is in this picture but in a different spot. Hmmm.

Joshua really got into his work. And there’s Roscoe yet again. I think he must like getting his picture taken.

Joseph was getting tired, but he didn’t fall asleep on the job. I just caught him in mid-blink. I wouldn’t make the kids work that hard. He also broke four of my corn plants. I know he didn’t mean to do it, but he just wasn’t watching where he was walking. He was so proud of how he was helping I couldn’t be mad at him.

Somehow Roscoe didn’t end up in this picture. I think it is because we had to keep shooing him out of the garden so he wouldn’t step on any of the plants. We had already had enough of that.

Janna even helped. You can’t see her, but she is in my wrap. She obviously didn’t do any physical work, but she did help by letting her Mommy work. We worked like that for almost 1 1/2 hours. If it weren’t for babywearing I wouldn’t have a garden this year.

Finally, here is my potato patch. Regular potatoes are to the right and sweet potatoes are to the left. We didn’t do any work in this patch today. Hopefully, we will get to it this week.

I think our garden is coming along nicely and it was wonderful to have my children help me. Do your children help you in the garden (if you have one)?

I am linking this post to The Finer Things In Life.

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