We ventured out to our garden for the first time today, finally. The kids were extremely excited and chomping at the bit to dig right in (as it were). DS and I did figure out a most basic preliminary garden plan, marking the general areas of 'paths', 'beds', and 'rows' . I tried my best to let my son do most of the leading, while I made suggestions here and there, since this is very much our project together. While we had worked out a few ideas on paper these past few weeks, actually seeing our little plot of earth up close and personal in the patchwork of community gardens was rather like facing a blank canvas, and many of our original musings just sort of ... evaporated. Instead, we hastily made some quickie decisions, then got down to the business of what my son was MOST itching to do -- dig, and PLANT. Which we did -- cabbage, broccoli and onions (all purchased seedlings). We also have a number of packets of seeds to put in that we did not get to today, as well as our seed potatoes, but these will come next. At least we've gotten a start. Anyway, we planted our onions and cabbages together (in proximity I mean -- although he and I did work together to plant them too)-- as suggested by the proponents of companion organic gardening. We'll see how that goes.

Now if only it were to gently rain tonight to water our new little planties out there, I'd be much obliged.....