Planting in the Vegetable Garden

Today we got started on our vegetable garden. We pulled up the weeds from the winter, added three bags of compost and turned the soil. I didn’t think to take a ‘before’ picture of the raised bed, but it was looking pretty shabby. I had a few vegetable starts to plant, and I picked up some seeds at the hardware store as well.
 

First up Vivi helped me plant the snap pea starts – her favorite vegetable. Next Dom did a great job helping me plant the broccoli starts – his favorite veggie! Then we moved on to the seeds: rainbow carrots, bush beans, snap peas, cucumbers and radishes. We were just getting started on the itsy bitsy rainbow carrot seeds when somehow baby brother took a header face first into the garden! He’s such a boy that he couldn’t care less that he had a face full of dirt. Then, while I was getting him cleaned off Vivi planted the entire pack of carrot seeds in about a third of the garden and they’re much too small to be able to pick out. That was the end of our planting session – we’ll have to do more in the next week or so. I think I’ll wait for the carrots to sprout and then plant the radishes among them, and keep the other area for the peas and beans and cucumbers.