"Doing the Rain Thing"

This week's gardening class was about rain and why water is so important for a garden.  After the learning portion of the class, the kids put a rain gauge in the garden and checked on some of their plants.

The kids started the pumpkins off from seeds and the plants have grown a lot over the last 7 weeks.

The flowers are starting to turn into the tiny pumpkins!

The cantaloupes (and some watermelon??? - I didn't know the kids planted them) are doing well.  Ms. Lisa was working on putting a fence up around these because the groundhog that lives under the old house next to the garden loves cantaloupe.  He apparently ate one bite out of each one last year!

After checking out the plants, the kids got to pick blackberries ...

And potatoes (I was late getting pictures of these because I was putting on Rylan's gloves and the potatoes were pulled up in about 2 seconds).

This afternoon Carter and I ate all the blackberries that we hadn't already snacked on.  We sprinkled a little sugar on them and they were super, super yummy!!!