kindergardens - week 10 {trillions of peas}

We didn't get into the garden much over the weekend, so when Kiddo and I went to check on it yesterday, he was thrilled by how much everything had grown since last week.

His morning glory house is just about covered from top to bottom.  We had to cut the morning glory back so that he could find the windows.

And it's starting to bloom!

His teepee is starting to take shape,

and his maze is looking more and more like a maze!

We picked cauliflower, broccoli and all but a couple of our kohlrabi this week.  My family thinks we should give away the rest of the cauliflower - I blanched and froze a couple of heads this past weekend, and the whole house was pretty stinky.  Kiddo eventually escaped out the door because he couldn't take it anymore.  To make matters worse, the pot boiled over while I was busy packing up freezer bags, but I didn't think much of it until two days later when the kitchen positively reeked and we finally discovered a large pool of cauliflower water sitting under the burners in the stove.  Eeew, eeew, and more eeeeew.  When we got it mopped up, our kitchen magically smelled better.  Go figure.  There must be a better way to handle cauliflower.  If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears!

We also picked a few handfuls of peas yesterday.  Kiddo was excited by the bounty.  "We've got millions and billions and trillions of peas, Mommy!!"

We sat down together on the edge of the raised bed with our pile of pea pods and snacked away.  It was one of those sweet moments that I want to tuck away and remember forever.  Just me and my boy, sitting next to each other in the garden with the mid-morning sunshine on our backs, comparing the number and size of peas in our pods before popping them in our mouths.

After our snack, we battled with the evil Japanese beetle.

"When the beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle."

Sorry.  That just came out of nowhere.

We also discovered an orange-ish tomato (hooray!), and noticed that our Indian corn has started to tassel!

This weekend Kiddo and I are going out of state for a few days, so it will be exciting to check our garden when we get back and see what has changed and grown while we were away.  Maybe we'll have millions and billions and trillions of tomatoes!  Or Japanese beetles.

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