many hands make light work
Today I was able to get the kids to join me in the garden. That's not always an easy sell, but today I offered them a choice of tasks, as follows: harvest strawberries | weed the garden containers | plant Dakota Black popcorn | thin the fig tree | prune the Meyer lemon tree | harvest lemons My 9-year-old daughter opted to plant the popcorn . Our good friends in town gave us the kernels, which we soaked overnight and then planted, 4 kernels per hole, spaced 4" apart. We love popcorn, so growing our own sounds very exciting! My 6-year-old son chose to pull out the pesky purslane that has popped up aggressively in the box where peppers and celery are growing. The drip watering system had just finished watering, so pulling the weeds out was quick work. While they busied themselves with those tasks, I harvested strawberries . We planted 84 Albion strawberry plants in early 2019. Last year, a number of them died from lack of water (there was a clog in th...