Oh, goodness sakes. I can hardly wait to get out and kick around in that good dirt. I’m blocking from my mind right now last summer’s miserable three months of 100* heat and NO TOMATOES.
ahmmmmmm…
Okay, I’ve erased my memory–not a hard task at my age–and I’ll just tear into the garden planting expecting great harvests of taters, onions, squash, cantaloupes, okra (or okry as real Southerners call it,) and of course, tomatoes. There isn’t any reason to plant sweet corn here because our hot winds blow the pollen away and after months of babying, I find cobs with only a lonely kernel here and there. So very vexing.
In preparation for Good Friday next week, the grandkids and the nieces planted Resurrection Gardens as shown below from the super nifty homeschool blog Homeschool Creations. This is a great opportunity for discussion and giving young children a better understanding of the resurrection of Christ.
Gramps and I grow wheat, so I just trotted out to the grain bin and dumped out the seeds I needed into a bucket, but if you have to go looking for wheat berries at a health food store you might not have time to grow lush wheat grass by Good Friday. It’s worth trying, however. I think you could even use fast sprouting bean or pea seeds. Or pile rocks over the ‘tomb’. (That would be more accurate anyway.)
From Jolanthe of Homeschool Creations:
That is a really neat idea. The girls’ gardens look great. Thanks for being their Friday Art class teacher. They really enjoy it. The nephew & tractor team in the first picture make me happy as well. “If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy”. (One of my favorite quotes from Red Green.)
I fear the women will probably find the nephew handsome as well as handy. We should have put a brick on his head. I was happy to find the Resurrection Garden idea. Wished I’d had it years ago, Anonymous.
What a fantastic idea – I’ve never heard of a resurrection garden before! I’m so doing this with my kids–correction, my husband and I are so doing this with our kids because my thumb is so un-green that I would kill even the heartiest of grasses. And would completely defeat the purpose of a “resurrection” garden 🙂
Winter wheat is the hardiest of plants–I have a great respect for anything that can cling to life in SW Oklahoma. If you keep it watered, not even your black thumb can kill it. 🙂
I hope all of you enjoy the project and the gardens deepen the meaning of Easter.