With the season still going strong at work, I haven’t had much extra time to spend in my garden.

We try to make it a ritual when Little Miss gets home from school and I get in from work to water our newly planted perennials and containers.  She is a real trooper in wanting to do things herself or help Momma, so she will either get her “own hose” (what she calls a watering can) or drag the real hose around (just like Momma).

 She is even getting better at not spraying all the flowers, but actually watering the soil so the plants aren’t “thirsty” anymore.  This is a great age for showing kids how to do things because all she wants to do is copy what momma or daddy are doing.

 While on our watering adventure this week we started to harvest our snap peas we planted earlier in the season (see Two Peas in a Pod). Even yesterday she had to go and pull some off the vine while we were watering (almost pulled the entire vine off the fence while doing so). But she is doing it herself!!

“MMMMMM….. Delicious”, she says.  I just can’t wait until our tomatoes start to ripen, they are getting close.  She will be popping those in her mouth before I can even say “wait, that’s not ripe yet!”  How do you teach a 2 year old that the concept of green means “go” and red mean “stop” doesn’t apply to tomatoes??

                                ~LMM