Garden Update

Our sunflowers are getting ready to bloom....this one has cool purple veins!

A zinnia came up from our wildflower seeds....

...and some bachelor buttons too!

The cucumbers are starting to sprout.....

We even have some late summer strawberries!

Backyard Farming!

Our theme this week is "Backyard Farming."  Today we made scrapbook chickens for our craft.  We got the idea from a fabric version on a chicken found here:

Molly Chicken

We cut out shapes from scrapbook paper using the templates from the fabric bird tutorial...

 

Then the kids started gluing them together....

They turned out like this!

Hanging on the cupboards!

Also since it's farming week here is an update of our garden!

We got tired of waiting for our wild flowers to come up so we planted some impatiens....you can see the wildflowers starting to peek up from the mulch....

The sunflowers are starting to get bigger!

We started this one earlier in the spring and it is just about ready to bloom!

We got a pretty fence to go around them so they don't get mowed over!

The big kids started a vegetable and herb garden too!

Gardening

This morning we started our sunflower garden....here is a picture of last year's sunflowers...

 Last year we just planted one variety...this year we planted a few different types...it will be fun to see what pops up!

 Our empty garden wall with our sprouts put in today

We also planted some wildflowers, zinnias and impatiens around the tree outside of our window

Then we added some rocks from the "forest rock pile"