Garden Day with Lia
Are you ready for another Friday Story Time by Lia? I woke up early and Pop was already outside so I hurried and got my garden clothes and boots on and I went to find out what we were going to do today! Come with me on my garden day with Lia!
Welcome to my garden! When Pop started my Reflection garden about two years ago, he found this old rake buried under the dirt. We decided to hang it on the fence above my garden and added the Welcome sign with the butterfly!
This morning I grabbed my gardening bag, pulled out my gloves and started my gardening. We went to Lowes and Home Depot the other day and I had so much to do.
I had already planted the squash and peppers and they are growing great. But I decided to plant some sweet potatoes today! First I dug holes to put the plants in, I refilled it with the soil, patted it down and when all done, I watered them. We’ve never planted potatoes so I’m excited to see if they grow!
Ma has been looking for eggplant but the garden centers didn’t have any… until the other day! She was so happy to finally find eggplant this season. So I planted those near the squash and peppers and now wait for some vegetables! This is my vegetable garden, I have strawberries, lettuce for Pop, brocolli, eggplant, summer squash and peppers.
I planted my blueberry bush a week or so ago and I alread have baby blueberries! I hope I get enough to make blueberry muffins!!
Back to my Reflection garden, Pop also found an old rusty shovel buried in the dirt when he started my garden two years ago. It didn’t look like anything we could use until Ma came up with the idea to turn it into a Golden Shovel. Pop painted it gold and Ma decided to add my name and date. But then mommy decided to add my footprints and turn them into a butterfly! I love my Golden Shovel and this is a blog about how it changed from a rusty shovel to a golden shovel. http://themarthareview.com/my-golden-shovel/ After people visited my golden shovel blog, some suggested ma should write a poem about it and that’s just what she did, she wrote An Old Rusty Shovel Poem!
Do you see the old bench? Ma saw a man at the recycling center getting ready to through it out so she asked if we could have it! She does stuff like that, takes old things that might be junk to someone but a treasure to someone else. Pop and I painted it, added some pink and it’s perfect for my garden. This is a three part blog about my relection garden. http://themarthareview.com/lias-reflection-garden-chapter-3/
Back to my garden today, I added two hanging pots of flowers and used yellow and pink because those are my favorite colors.
I have so many rose bushes in my garden and they are all started to bloom! Now I have to get back to watering my plants! I hope you had fun visiting with me on my garden day with Lia! See you next week for another Friday Story Time by Lia.
Lia, I can’t even tell you exactly why, but this post moves me. You’re growing up in a wonderful environment, and you’re greatly contributing to it. Soak up these precious moments with your family.
I’m’keeping my fingers crossed for your sweet potatoes. And the strawberries!
Lia says thank you for visiting her garden Tamara! When she’s gardening, her eyes are focused on everything from planting to the little bugs in the garden! Oh and can’t forget her friends the Lady Bugs!
What a wonderful corner of the yard! Children and gardens are often great friends. Nice job Lia!
From a corner with weeds and whatnot, I think Pop and Lia turned it into a magical garden Melynda. Lia loves watching the birds and butterflies visit her garden.
Martha, your garden looks lovely, it is great to start them young out there they learn so much.
Little ones are like sponges, they take everything in and Lia retains so much Amanda. She loves gardening, both flowers and vegetables.
I LOVE THE GARDEN. Butterflies always make me smile and this post has me grinning from ear to ear. Lia is so cute in her little butterfly hat and I really like the welcome sign. Keep up the good work Lia and thanks for sharing your beautiful garden with us. 🙂
Lia loves working outside with Pop. She loves her garden and hoping her wild flowers will draw even more butterflies! Lia said thank you for visiting her garden Samantha!
Lia, you are inspiring me with your veggies and fruits. I want to work edible plants into my garden. Phoenix gets really really hot in the summer, so I need to find heat-tolerant plants. This year might be for planning, then planting the actual plants in October. With the sweet potatoes– they sometimes become huge long gorgeous vines! And you can eat the blossoms. So I’ll look for your reports as the garden starts to grow more. Great job!
Lia says thank you Kebba! Her nor I didn’t know about thr long sweet potato vines! Not sure how they will grow in our hot weather, but hopefully Lia can get a few potatoes! She loves gardening so much!
So beautiful! Thank you for showing me around your garden. It’s growing very nicely because it has a great gardener to tend to it! Happy Earth Day, Lia.
Lia says, thank you for visiting her garden Alicd! She gets so excited when she sees little buds starting on her vegetables.
Lia’s garden and gardening enthusiasm has me inspired now (we finally made our long overdue trip to the garden store to get our planting done after reading this post earlier!!)
This month has been full of inspriation on so many levles Vidya! People have inspired Lia and me and we’ve inspired others. Such a great feeling when on either side of it!
Looks like Lia had so much fun in her garden. I love her little Butterfly hat too. Have a great weekend. Hugs.
Lia loves gardening and gets so excited when she sees new growth on her plants Amanda. Our neighbor surprised Lia with the hat because he knew she loves butterflies!