Life with Jack and Jyll: Jyll has "Little Green Fingers!"

Dahlia's

My Jyll has inherited my Mom and Grandmothers Green thumbs. She has enjoyed gardening with my mother sense early Spring this year. We have spent a lot of time making a vegetable garden and taking care of the regular flower gardens that my mother has won an award for in previous years.

We had been debating all spring/summer if we wanted to buy a sandbox or not and decided not to because Jyll has more fun digging in the dirt. We spent a lot of time in the Vegetable Garden this Spring planting: Watermelon, Strawberries, Beets, Pole beans, Lima beans, Peas Sunflowers, Basil, Thyme, Rosemary, Oregano, Sage, Swiss Chard, Carrots, Potatoes, Cucumbers, Pumpkins and Tomatoes....plus some flowers.Jyll was given a 2 foot square area to plant things in. She planted Beets and some random seed packets in there. Sadly her beets grew better then the ones I planted in nice neat rows!She grew Poppies from seeds about 5 years old. The above picture is of my mom's Dahlia's. These are grown from bulbs. My mom commented the ohter day sayig that these are the best they have looked in years. Jyll helped her plant them this year. Also by the Dahlia's Jyll planted Moss Rose from a packet of seeds from 1997.... the grew and have just started to blossom!