Week One

This is one of our three sisters gardens (We have two!).  As you can see, only half has been planted.  Mrs. Diaz planted the rest with sunflowers to create a Vincent Van Gogh garden.  Everywhere you see a rock, a sunflower has been planted.  How long will it take for the flowers to grow?

This is our colonial kitchen garden.  The foreground includes two different types of tomato plants.  The tomatoes would not have been planted in a colonial kitchen garden.  Most colonial gardens had old world plants brought over from Europe.  The tomato is native to the New World.

This is a marigold/veggie/herb garden.  It's hard to decide what makes this garden stand out more, the bright colors or the fragrant herbs.

The Peter Rabbit garden is teeming with veggies, flowers and herbs.  Mrs. Diaz is doing some repairs on the scarecrow.  Hopefully he'll be back in business soon!  What we really need is something to scare the deer away.

Finally, here we have the pollinator garden.  The bee balm and marigolds have bloomed.  The bee balm came all the way from Pennsylvania.  Ms. Fenton brought it from her parents' yard.  It seemed a bit shy at first, but now it seems quite used to our southern ways.  Thanks Ms. Fenton!  We'd have more blooms in the pollinator garden if the deer hadn't raided it twice already!  They ate sunflowers and zinnias.  Mrs. Diaz planted more sunflowers to fill in the empty spaces.