Harvest!

The garden has been growing amazingly! Last time I wrote we had tried our radishes. Since then things have really started growing like crazy.

The kids have been helping keep track of temperatures and rainfall. I have a hi/low thermometer and have currently been relying on the weather channel for rainfall. We try to graph a few times per week, but don't count weekends (except for precipitation). We have had a wet summer, on some of the weekends we have had to spread out our precipitation data because it exceeded the limits of our graph!

We finally had a day where we were able to pick some green beans. The kids loved getting to pick them and eat them right off the vine! Some of them even kept some to bring in and share with those who decided not to join us.

We also got to pick some cucumbers. We picked 8 cucumbers. The kids helped measure them and our smallest was 7.5" and our longest was 11.5". The kids then estimated how many seeds were in the cucumbers. Our guess averaged in the 200's. I then sliced it and gave each kid 4 slices. Before they could eat them, they had to count how many seeds were in each slice. We came up with about 264 seeds! We did pretty good with our estimating! The kids were really excited to be picking!