Cole blogs: Eating strawberries.

Hello do you no who your talking to?Cole!I am blogging.Okay now. I am eating a strawberry.Do you like strawberries.Write a letter.

Spring Fun with The Peters Family Band

I took Rylan, Eli, and Kenny to a strawberry farm on Thursday (sadly I forgot my camera). They were amazingly good and even helped, so I kept picking and picking. Tip for any parents who want to take their kids strawberry picking: Bring a wagon, put a bucket of strawberries in it, and let them have at it.

We ended up with five 5-lb buckets plus I threw in an extra 5-lb box to make a total of 30 pounds of strawberries.


We ate one bucket, made one and a half into jam, made half of one into syrup, froze two, and I'm going to dry one. Another first attempt at domesticity for me.


Michael spent the weekend building a trellis for our garden so we can train the squash and cucumbers to climb up and away from the corn they're suffocating. We also staked all of the corn because the soil mixture we used is too light and fluffy.


And our tomato plants have turned into trees.

But we have tomatoes!

Me

I was having an extremely bad Cole Day a couple weeks ago and decided to cheer myself up with a change of hair. I cut it myself, but I don't think I did a terrible job. Wish I had rounded out the sides more, but besides that...(Don't tell Miriam!)

Cole Blogs: fighting stuff

I have fighting stuff.There is a magic wand and a stick.I am in my backyard.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

We've had lots of failures but I'm still pretty proud of our garden so far.

This picture was taken about a week ago, and the plants are already twice as big as this.

On the right side, we planted two indeterminate tomatoes, two determinate tomatoes, and six peppers. I tried planting lettuce, but after killing it twice, I gave up. Just this weekend, I planted some southern peas in that spot instead. I also planted flower seeds in all the corners, but am not having success with those at all.

On the left side, I planted four more indeterminate tomatoes, two rows of corn, two zucchinis, one squash, and two cucumbers. I also planted green bean seeds next to the corn last weekend - we're hoping to train the beans to vine up the corn. We also need to build a trellis for the squash and cucumbers to get them to grow up instead of out.

So far, our biggest pest is an evil squirrel that lives in our yard. It keeps digging giant holes and knocking over plants. I almost wish I had a b-b gun.

Cole Says

Cole took a baseball bat outside to defend my garden from the evil squirrel: "It's like whack-a-mole!"

Rylan Says

After helping Rylan put on his pants, I said, "There you go, Bub."

He replied angrily, "No that not Bub. That me!"

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When someone asks Rylan what his name is, he holds up two fingers.