Hello!

So, here's a test of everyone's blog rollers. Am I still on some? It's been almost a year, but I have a good excuse. Something about a new baby, right? Sounds familiar.

ANYWAY, I was looking for a place to show off our new garden, so I thought I'd throw the pictures in here. The boy and I are growing vegetables and it's been a lot of fun. Here's what we have.


This is our Square Foot Garden, planted last month. Yes, in January. It's one of the good things about living in San Diego!


Top Row: Purple Queen (bush) beans, snap peas, snap peas, asparagus (pole) beabs.

Second Row: Broccoli, carrots, garlic (from sets), spinach

Third Row: Broccoli, sweet onions (from seed), red onions (from sets), spinach

Fourth Row: Butter lettuce, red leaf lettuce,











The beans and the peas look the most interesting.














The garlic is growing really well, and you can start to see some spinach coming up.










So far I'm really liking the Square Foot Gardening method. It's very organized, which I like, and it's small. It's the right scale for working with a preschooler. Gabe feels so much pride and ownership with these plants. One of his favorite things to do is to go out and water his plants. It's going to be even better when he can actually eat the vegetables. We've planted things he loves, so it'll be even better.

There it is. Our garden. I'll update in a few weeks when things look different.

And yes, I've watched a little American Idol. Gah, the singers really suck. VoteForTheWorst is going to have a lot of fun this season! I'll try to write recaps, at least until the season starts to wear on me. I swear, if there's another David Archuleta I'm quitting. *shiver*