No one in my family likes to garden. John is so uninterested he doesn't do it at all. I feel obligated to force the kids to have a vegetable garden. I'm sure it's very good for them, and spring break, what a perfect time to force them to garden. Actually, once we all get going, it's not so bad. David likes pounding clumps of dirt. We all like deciding which vegetables we are going to try this year. And, I add a minute of gardening time for every whine I get, so my 45 minutes are usually whine free.

I broke our activities into three days: clearing the vegetable patch, shopping for seeds, and sowing. Then the kids kept getting play dates or I had students coming over, so we had to work fast.

We had a huge sage bush in the vegetable garden. Qe moved that to a pot by the back door and also sowed cilantro and basil in pots. We gave up on the snow peas and tomatoes this year and went with carrots, green onions, and kale. We are going to add delicata squash and pumpkin in a couple weeks. Watering the garden is the kids' job, and it's actually gotten done for the last five days, so might, and I put this very tentatively, grow something this year.