Sunday, October 18, 2009

News from the Square-foot Garden


It's Growing! We kid you not! Today when Kylie went out to water the garden, she saw about 8 tiny sprouts. Hooray!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Square Foot Gardens and Nose Picker Pliers





Garrett and I set a goal a long time ago to establish a square foot garden. We finally accomplished that goal this past week. With help from some birthday money, we purchased the needed supplies. Garrett built the garden box a couple of days later, and then I finally planted the seeds on 10/13/09. Here are some pictures of the building of the square foot garden box. You will notice a picture of me holding a long, black extension cord. It took me about 10 minutes to get it untangled. I tried to be helpful, but honestly, I was mostly underfoot! We planted some carrots, peas, lettuce, scallions, yellow onions, and broccoli. If all goes well, most of the seeds should sprout late next week. A number of families in our ward at church also have gardens, so at their suggestion, I put a nylon bird barrier over the garden so the birds wouldn't try to eat the seeds I had planted. So far, so good. 

The second part of this post is based on (you guess it) another experience I had at Cub Scouts. The Assistant Den Leader and myself set out a number of different tools on a table and told the Cubs the name of each tool and what it is used for. Among the tools we told them about was a pair of needle nose pliers. After a while, we covered the tools with a towel and had the Cubs recall as many of the tools as they could. They did very well. They remembered there was a pair of pliers, but none of them could recall the specific type of pliers they were. After a few seconds of hard thinking, one of the boys said, "Nose picker pliers?" (in all seriousness). Needless to say, we all had a good laugh, and I explained that the pliers were known as needle nose pliers. But if a person ever wanted to use a tool to pick his nose, I must say that the needle nose pliers (also known as Nose Picker Pliers by my Wolf Cub den) would probably be the best choice!