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Celebrate National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month with 5 Things You Can Do! http://t.co/CVLLycG
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@katyshecooks Katy, Katy you can do it! If you can't do it no one can!
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RT @FoodFun: Today is the first day of Childhood Obesity Month! How will you make a difference? http://t.co/0Kx4d2k
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After planting our garden about a month ago, at least one us thinks of looking at the garden daily. We were all excited to see the plants starting to show through, but we gradually started noticing something was getting to our Swiss chard plants as they were starting to sprout leaves. The stalks were still intact, but the leaves were nibbled around the edges.
So, our neighborhood is known for its rabbits. And not just your cute little hippity-hoppity kind, but rather a larger variety with thick white tails. Would you believe we even have a humongous domestic one that someone let loose last year. He even survived a harsh winter and is back wandering the streets.
One morning while I was at work, my husband glanced out the back door and caught the rabbit red-handed enjoying a hardy, iron-rich breakfast of Swiss chard. Well, to save the beets, spinach and broccoli that was coming up, we decided to conquer the problem. My husband measured the garden, hit the hardware store, and in less than two hours, we had a fence surrounding the garden. Hooray! We won that round, but now the chipmunks are hanging around the corn. UGH! Guess it could be worse---maybe deer.
Now, on the flipside, the other parts of our garden are going well! Just take a look. Here is a great shot of the volunteer squash that we have coming up in random spots. Remember, we use LOTS of our compost on the garden which contains LOTS of seeds. It's kind of fun to see what will come up each year. One year, when we were in Portland we used our compost on our yard before we re-seeded, and ended up with pumpkins growing in the grass. How fun!
For those of you who had questions about growing corn, take a look. It's really not that hard, as long as you have proper germination. We let the multitude of bees that like our neighbor's flowers do their work.
And look... I even have two tomatoes!! Woohoo! I will be so shocked to have fresh homegrown tomatoes from my garden before late July!! Wish me luck.
After planting our garden about a month ago, at least one us thinks of looking at the garden daily. We were all excited to see the plants starting to show through, but we gradually started noticing something was getting to our Swiss chard plants as they were starting to sprout leaves. The stalks were still intact, but the leaves were nibbled around the edges.
So, our neighborhood is known for its rabbits. And not just your cute little hippity-hoppity kind, but rather a larger variety with thick white tails. Would you believe we even have a humongous domestic one that someone let loose last year. He even survived a harsh winter and is back wandering the streets.
One morning while I was at work, my husband glanced out the back door and caught the rabbit red-handed enjoying a hardy, iron-rich breakfast of Swiss chard. Well, to save the beets, spinach and broccoli that was coming up, we decided to conquer the problem. My husband measured the garden, hit the hardware store, and in less than two hours, we had a fence surrounding the garden. Hooray! We won that round, but now the chipmunks are hanging around the corn. UGH! Guess it could be worse---maybe deer.
Now, on the flipside, the other parts of our garden are going well! Just take a look. Here is a great shot of the volunteer squash that we have coming up in random spots. Remember, we use LOTS of our compost on the garden which contains LOTS of seeds. It's kind of fun to see what will come up each year. One year, when we were in Portland we used our compost on our yard before we re-seeded, and ended up with pumpkins growing in the grass. How fun!
For those of you who had questions about growing corn, take a look. It's really not that hard, as long as you have proper germination. We let the multitude of bees that like our neighbor's flowers do their work.
And look... I even have two tomatoes!! Woohoo! I will be so shocked to have fresh homegrown tomatoes from my garden before late July!! Wish me luck.