Our Garden

Several months ago Jackson told us he wanted to be a farmer, so of course we told him when it is warm we will let you be a farmer. Now is it Spring, time to start planting. We decided to build a garden box in the backyard and plant a few vegetable plants. We started cutting the wood for the box and Jackson interested for exactly 5 minutes and he was off to play something else. So I thought, this part is that interesting, he will like it more when we plant the veggies. Jackson and I then head to Lowe's to purchase our soil and veggies, while we are there he is not concerned one bit with what plants we will buy to plant, but only wanted to get an outdoor water fountain. We get home and put the soil in the box and start to plant, finally the part I just know Jackson is going to love. We dig our first hole for our first tomato plant and fill it with water from the water hose and the put the plant in the hole and fill it with the remaining soil. One down and about 10 to go, so I start to dig the hole for the second plant and say "Jackson time to fill the hole with water." with no response I look over and see he is playing in the water from the hose, drinking it and soaking himself. Finally he comes over and fills the hole with water. This is what he decided he wanted to do instead of being a farmer. We eventually got all of our veggies planted: tomato's, cucumbers, yellow squash, jalapeno peppers, bell peppers, broccoli and collards. We will plant watermelon soon and pumpkins a little later on. This looks like it is no longer "Farmer Jackson's" garden but mom's garden. My hope now is that he will be come interested in this again once he sees the actually fruit from his (my) labor or just maybe he will EAT the veggies!