Growing a Sunflower House: Week 2

It’s been a couple of weeks since we planted the veggies in our garden and sowed the seeds for the sunflower house. We fertilized everything midweek and with the sunny 80 degree weather everything is growing superbly. We check on the sunflower house every day and it has been a fun project for all of the neighbor girls who are sharing in the fun. At some point during the day our front yard becomes a busy little station of pint size gardeners who have hope for what grows before their eyes. Want to grow your own sunflower house?

We’ve already enjoyed the bounty from our garden and the calendar month is still in May. So far we’ve enjoyed a variety of lettuce and cilantro. A small harvest, but only the beginning. We have decided to continue making the land that we live on even more sustainable. This year we will definitley have to supplement our produce with vegetables from the Farmer’s Market but next year we plan to have more garden space. We will begin prepping the ground this summer for some fall plantings of blueberries and then raspberries. We’ll keep you up-to-date on our easy turn-your-lawn-into-food methods.