Gardening

For those of you who know me, I don’t have a green thumb!  So I haven’t done any gardening over the years.  But I thought that maybe it would be nice to do some gardening with the kids while we are in Canada this time.  Thankfully I have a father-in-law that has green thumbs and fingers, so I can get plenty of guidance and direction.

About 10 days ago we planted our seeds together.

It was great to have lots of help to get it all planted.  Hopefully I will have the same amount of help as we need to weed!

After being away for this last weekend, we came home to many sprouts of plants coming up!  How very exciting!  We can’t wait to eat the fruit of our labour!

We hope to have peas, beans, carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, squash, pumpkins and corn!

Many of you have asked if we have a garden in our village, so we can have fresh veggies.  The answer is no.  First we don’t have any space near our house.  The people from our village have their gardens out in the areas surrounding the village.  We would have to rent land from someone to do it.  The second reason we don’t do it is, we don’t have time!!!  Our days are so full with language and culture study, plus home schooling and raising 6 kids, that we just don’t have enough hours in our day to tend to a garden.

Vegetables are very cheap to buy in town.  About every 3 weeks we have fresh fruit and veggies come in to us.  They last about 10 days.  After that we eat canned veggies.  Sometimes we are able to buy a little bit of string beans and eggplant from the villagers but that isn’t very often.  We hope to be able to supply the people with some seeds for some other vegetables that maybe they can grow for us and keep some for themselves.  We shall see how it all works out though!