Arriving dwelling after a protracted journey, there may be tons to do within the backyard. Fortunately I’ve my two granddaughters, Charlotte and Olivia, to assist me out. The very first thing we do is to reap the snap peas and beans. Juana tried to maintain up with the harvest, however there have been too many crops rising too shortly.

Charlotte is deft in balancing on the raised beds to seize every pea pod. Her sister is extra content material to eat them reasonably than place them in a basket. Subsequent is the garlic. Charlotte loves to reap it feeling the mild tear because the bulb separates from the soil that’s holding it so tightly. She retains observe of what number of bulbs she has pulled and lays them out on a rack in my greenhouse.

I then take away all of the straw from the beds and Charlotte is amazed in any respect the worms in residence. Shrieks of laughter and ickiness emerge as she and Olivia examination these lengthy, cool and slimy invertebrates.

Olivia is enjoying with some weeds whereas Juana collects wheat seed heads which have discovered their means into the backyard.

Such good work deserves a deal with, and whereas I’m weeding the lettuce beds, I pull just a few carrots for the three of them to get pleasure from. It’s early within the season, however they chop down on them with hungry pleasure.

We then go to the decrease vegetable backyard the place they watch me weed. Juana clips just a few yellow peppers that we’ll have for lunch. Charlotte helps me pull off the floating row cowl that’s defending the squash and cucumber crops. However not earlier than she spots a pair of grasshoppers sitting on it naming them ‘grassy’ and ‘hopper’.

These crops have exploded in dimension and so have the weeds round them. They’ve but to flower so after weeding, Charlotte and I change the row cowl. Everyone seems to be hungry, so Juana heads in to make tuna-fish salad for lunch.

Sated, it’s nap time however as soon as all of us come up will likely be time to reap some blueberries. The day is windy, and the sky is obvious. An ideal summer season afternoon to spend with my granddaughters.