Green Thumbs

We are trying our hand at gardening this summer. My sister has done it for several years, and our good friends Scott and Dawn from Maine tried last summer and had some awesome veggies to snack on when we visited last year. Sooooo, here we go. We planned to start small with four tomato plants and one cucumber plant. Well, our neighbor Karen popped over, who I should tell you has a master green thumb (she grows fruit trees, vegetables, raises bunnies and now has chickens so she can gather the eggs!)...anyway, she said she had some seeds left over from her planting days. So, we ended up with beans, pumpkin, snap peas and sunflowers! WOW! She did not get the memo that we are gardening virgins! Oh well, we'll give it a go! The sunflowers are planted...apparently they are the REALLY big ones. We made a makeshift greenhouse by putting the other seeds into ziploc bags with a wet paper towel. We have taped them to the kitchen window to incubate for a week or so, then we will plant them in the garden as well! We will put up progress pictures throughout the summer, so check back! I will try to get a final pic of the garden tomorrow, I have a couple finishing touches to do. P.S. Thanks Jim for building us the box for the box garden, and for loading in all the dirt. And thanks to Aunt Chandra and Uncle Murat for getting the tomato and cucumber plants, and Ms. Karen for sharing her knowledge and her seeds. Enjoy the pics!
Edit to Add - Below the Smilebox is a pic of the garden so far. Still in the VERY early stages.

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