June 8, 2012

• How does the Garden Grow

  Last year, Certain Man was so busy working on
  Middle Daughter’s library and balcony
  that the garden got away from him like it has NEVER done before.  
  This year, he is back to his usual form,
  and the garden is by far the best it has ever been!

  

  Tomatoes, carrots, yellow squash,
  green beans, potatoes, peppers and cabbage.
  Oh, and that’s the faithful gardener there,
  looking for potato bugs, and thinning his carrots.

   

  

  Pole limas, onions, ground cherries–
   and where you cannot see,
   there is asparagus and butternut squash and rhubarb.

   

  

  This is the solitary cucumber plant that resides
  in Certain Man’s Garden.
  Evidence, again, of a grandpa’s love for his grandbaby.
  Our Charis-girlie loves the garden,
  eating baby carrots, dirt and all,
  helping to dump compost into the holes that are ready for plants,
   and pulling up radishes just for the delight of it.  
  This particular little girlie LOVES cucumbers.
  Daniel HATES them.
  They give him heartburn and he avoids them like the plague.  
  But he planted a cucumber for Charis
  so that she can have the joy of picking her very own cucumbers
  and eating them straight out of the patch.  
  And he heard that you can train them to climb a lattice,
  so he is giving that a try.
   It’s doing great!  
  If I think of it, I will show you a picture when it has cucumbers on it. 

   

  • 11:23 pm
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