Our Garden
K, left, and M, at the Project Grow garden. Not pictured: Me, J, J's green thumb
Ann Arbor has a gardening program called Project Grow. They provide space for people to plant their own gardens. There are several sites in Ann Arbor. Their website is here.
Our friends, the Kennedys, reserved a garden through Project Grow, and offered to let us have a small part of their plot this year. They also are letting us borrow some tomato cages. Last night was the first time we were there as a family, and we planted tomatoes, peppers, basil, and carrot seeds. We also covered the rest of our area with straw to help keep the weeds down. The boys helped plant the seeds and remove some of the weeds, and we all watered the plants and put cages up. Project Grow provides hoses at the gardens, and we watered our plants while we talked to the people who were tending the garden next door. We're hoping to add a pumpkin to our space, the idea for which we stole from the Kennedys, who are also growing a pumpkin.
We had beautiful weather, which made our first family trip to the garden a really nice evening.
Science Olympiad
Next week is the Science Olympiad competition. We are all ready for it, the kids have studied and practiced, and J and I are prepared to spend basically the whole day there since K's competitions will be in the morning, and M's will be in the afternoon. I am also working out a volunteer position with a neighbor of mine who is in charge of part of the Olympiad. Since we're going to be there all day, I might as well do something useful.
Not much else to report this week - we're doing some gardening at home as well this weekend, replacing some dead and/or dying hollies in the front garden with some new junipers and hastas which we think will thrive in that space a little better. A few new red twig dogwoods in the back to fill in some empty spaces, and we'll be all set. Now if we could just get the deer and bunnies to leave our plants alone - I tried to train the squirrels that visit J's bird feeder to scare off the bunnies, but they are not good listeners.
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