Category: The Wee Gardeners’ Corner

Gardening is a family affair around this house. So, I thought it would be good to include things for our wee gardeners.

Meet the Cast and Crew of the Wee Gardeners’ Corner

Meet the Cast and Crew of the Wee Gardeners’ Corner

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Introducing the ‘Cast and Crew’

I would like to take a minute to introduce some of the characters who help make the magic and/or mess happen. I asked all the mostly furless kids to draw a self-portrait for me. The furry ones don’t have thumbs though, so…I just had to take pictures.

Connor: my 14 year old resident paleontologist, entomologist, Dwarf Druid, and Little Buddha. Actually, he’s not little. At all. I wasn’t really prepared for that moment when I had to literally look up to look him in the eye. ::wipes tears::

Connor loves bugs, dinosaurs, Skyrim, D&D, and “cute little animals like Boxcar.” When asked about gardening he said, “It takes a lot of patience. If you live near water, watch out for mosquitoes,  mosquitoes, mosquitoes”

Maggie: my 10 year old Princess Artiste. She’s loves drawing, writing, reading, and bugging her brothers (sometimes quite literally).

Maggie says she likes reading, drawing, and playing outside. She also likes playing with dogs, dolls, and Legos. Maggie says, “I like gardening. I like to water my plants and watch the Ladybugs.”

Oliver: My 9 year old ball of energy with a smile that brightens the darkest days. He loves anything he can build with, riding his bike and being a helpful not-so-little-anymore guy.

Oliver says he likes Legos, reading books, playing outside, and hanging out with his family. He says, “Gardening is exciting because you get to plant seeds and water them. They get sun, and they grow. But the bad thing is bad bugs, and you have to take care of them. But don’t squish Ladybugs.”

Aspen: My aspiring arch-villain and 4 year old grandson. When he isn’t trying to use “The Force” on me, he’s…What am I saying? He’s always trying to Force choke me. He sure is a cutie though… ::cough::

Aspen is a HUGE Star Wars fan. He likes gardening because he gets to get dirty digging in the soil. He also likes to put seeds in the garden and water them.

Savannah, my 4 year old niece. She is also a Princess, but with long, flowing hair that she flips like a pro. She and Aspen will probably take over the world one day.

Savannah loves helping out any way she can. She adores her mommy, daddy, brothers, Mattie (her dog) and Casey (her ferret). Her specialty is planting the seeds and using the watering can.

Awww, momma.

Kouta is my 6 year old Australian shepherd mix pooch who doesn’t really believe he’s a dog. He likes to look for grubs while I’m digging; and tries to keep the squirrels, rats and opossums out of the garden.

“Enough about all this planning junk. Just throw the stick.” Boxcar, All Day Every Day.

Boxcar is a 10 month old blue heeler (and my constant companion) who loves grabbing my pants legs and chasing anything I am willing to throw. She REALLY likes helping me dig and sounding the alarm if she thinks a squirrel is anywhere in the vicinity.

This is me, according to Aspen… Apparently in his eyes, I have a rockin’ pompadour. Young Elvis would be jealous…
The Very First Wee Gardener Post

The Very First Wee Gardener Post

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Today we have a very special blogger, Maggie, my 10 year old Princess Artiste. She and I built a 3′ x 3′ raised bed garden exclusively for her use. With it being the tail end of this growing season, we just picked out a couple of things on clearance to tide her over until she settled on something she really wanted to grow. Can you tell how much I love clearance sales yet? She wanted to write her own blog. So she sat down with her Hello Kitty clipboard, some paper and a pencil and hammered out a rough draft. Then, she typed it herself on Google Docs. Without further ado, here she is:

 All About My Garden

I have a garden and one of the plants in there is Chocolate mint. It’s a plant with leaves on it and it taste like mint. Chocolate mint is also good on cupcakes, and cake, I can not think of any other ideas, but any way you would not put it inside on whatever you like it on you would put it on top, which is more better,and if you want ladybugs then you should get Chocolate mint. Ladybugs also love to hang out on other plants to but they love Chocolate mint. After that I planted this wonderful plant that helps it get rid of mosquitoes. The plant has a minty smell it’s not a strong smell though.I have two of them in fact my family hardly has any. Ladybugs also like the plant. I have one more plant and it’s called lemon balm.Lemon balm taste bitter by itself but it is really good on apple cider! If you see any dead leaves, be sure to pick them off so your plant can be a healthy plant. Be sure you pick the mean bugs off so they will not eat it!!! In the winter it dies but it grows back in the spring cool isn’t it? If it dies and does not come back, do not worry it always means you can grow new plants.  

  • Your true gardener,Maggie

Please note: the title and closer are supposed to be pink. I’ll have to figure out why it didn’t carry over at a later time, but she’s itching to get this published, so….

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