All Things Supercinski

I mentioned that we changed our garden this year, and so far, it is going well. Most everything is growing well, but many of our seeds have been taking a long time to sprout. After discussing this with Pa, we decided it is a soil temperature issue. Nights have been really cool and it is taking longer for our warm weather seeds to sprout. We still have a lot to do, but we currently have potatoes, green beans, lettuce, spinach, sugar snap peas, kale, onions, a few tomatoes (that I’m not sure will make it), carrots, red and green bell peppers, and some cucumber sprouts in the ground.

Working in the garden with little helpers can be a challenge, but I am learning to love it. I let Josiah get involved. He has gotten good at helping plant seeds, especially larger ones. I gave him his own little spot of a flower bed near our herbs and he gets to decide what to plant there. He gets to do the watering (or remind me to water there when I am watering everything else). He has a huge sense of ownership, and it keeps him occupied while I am working in the other garden. I love watching him show visitors his garden with his carrot growing (only one survived). After we have planted something new, he prays that God would make it grow big so we could eat it.

This was his first harvest from his little garden. His one carrot seemed huge and ready to pick, judging by the top of the carrot after I dug around the dirt. Josiah was very excited about picking it.

And very disappointed in the result.

He still ate most of it and enjoyed it. I think next year, he will get a larger bed with better soil, poor guy.