We Are Growing Food!: Introduction

Hi! We are Big G and Little G, new gardeners. We are planting our first garden. We are excited to be able to grow our own food! My little brother, Little G, exclaimed that he couldn't wait to see the food on the plants - Mama G told him that he would have to wait a few months.

We planted seeds in a tray of soil pods on March 15th, 2015, during a snowstorm. We planted fourteen types of plants, but only had twelve rows in our tray, so we didn't plant as many of some plants as others. We chose which plants to plant less of based on how much or little fruit/vegetable they would make (zucchini and cantaloupe) or how big they were going to be (sunflower and pumpkin). When we planted them, we put 2 to 3 seeds in each pod.

(our mom took these photos)

Mama G was surprised to see plants springing out of the soil only 5 days later, on Friday, March 20th. We planted cucumbers, beets, sunflowers, pumpkins, zucchini, cantaloupe, green peppers, romaine lettuce, wax beans, snap peas, spinach, carrots, parsley, and broccoli. The first seedlings out of the soil were the sunflower, cucumber, zucchini and pumpkin. On that day, there were no parsley, beets, broccoli or carrot plants.

Today, it snowed again, but our garden is inside and continues to grow! Almost all of the plants have popped up out of the soil. The only ones that haven't are the parsley and wax beans. One of the wax bean seeds has moved closer to the surface of the soil and we can see a couple of cracks in the top of it, so it may be thinking about growing soon. As you can see in the first and last photos, seeds are still attached to some of the plants. Also in picture three, you can see that part of the plant is growing out of the side of the soil pod.