kindergardens - week 24 {re-cap}

Despite the tropical temps the past few days (it's supposed to hit 90 this afternoon), Fall has arrived.

The mornings are brisk and cool, the leaves are changing colors, the geese are heading south, and the squirrels are busily stashing acorns away.  And we've come to the final week of the kindergarden contest.  What an adventure it has been!  We have had a blast gardening as a family.  There is an archive of all of our past kindergarden posts over in the side bar, but here is a re-cap of our summer (p.s. it is REALLY hard to condense five months of gardening into one blog post!):

We started out in the spring with mulch - lots and lots of mulch.

Kiddo created his own flower bed:

 

We've planted seeds and watched them grow:

We've been gifted seeds by a new friend:

We've picked and pulled and harvested:

We've snacked and grilled and frozen and dried and canned:

The highlight of our garden by far this year was the tunnel:

We've added some non-organic color:

(stepping stones)

(garden rocks)

(picnic table)

We've snapped and sniffed our way through the garden:

We've had some invited (and uninvited) guests:

(fish for our pond)

(more pond critters)

(birds)

(the less said about these little stinkers, the better)

(the butterflies loved Kiddo's flowers)

Hubby's grand peanut experiment actually worked (we're planning on roasting them in another week or so)!

And I have fallen in love with sunflowers.

Thanks so much to Kim, who dreamed up the kindergarden contest.  It has been an awesome motivator to get us out there together as a family.  It has been one of the highlights of our summer.  We're already dreaming and scheming for next spring (I'm so excited)!

Thanks for coming along for the ride.  Be sure to go visit Kim at the Inadvertent Farmer and be amazed at what everyone else has done over the summer - lots of cute kids and fabulous ideas!