Thanks to my dad and husband, my dream of having a garden this year has become a reality!
My dad brought over the materials for a raised garden bed and showed us how to put it together.
My husband and I don’t build things together often, so this was a lot of fun.
We did the “heavy lifting” during the little lady’s nap.
Once she woke up, she had a beautiful garden bed to plant whatever she wanted. (Or, rather, the plants we picked out at the hardware store.)
She was more interested in digging in the dirt than putting things in it.
But she loved carefully placing our homemade garden markers in the proper place.
They were really easy to make and a lot of fun!
We started off by going on a nature walk in our backyard in search of the perfect rocks.
We washed and dried them. Then painted them with acrylic paint. I used a sharpie to write on the rocks after the paint was dry.
They turned out so cute! And now we’ll know exactly what we’re growing!.
Now I just hope we don’t have a late frost and we’ll be good!
What are you growing this year? Do you use garden markers?
mamabyfire 
Nice! Lucky you, planting already. We use a lot in the local community gardens (along with friends) because I can’t decide where to put the raised beds on our yard.
Markers was something desperately needed last year, I may manage to persuade my husband to add some come summer.
I’ve always wanted to be part of a community garden too-seems like it would be fun! I have to have markers, otherwise I would have no clue what was in there. 😆
We planted carrots in our yard but I really need some sort of markers. I’d like to plant tomatoes and squash too. Those rocks are a really great idea.
Thanks! I’m planning on growing tomatoes as well, but I’ll have them in a pot. So excited!
jealous! I’d love a garden. I have thrown seeds out into the yard to see what happens..not smart. Have you seen how watermelons grow!? They took over the yard and not one was edible 🙂 You appear to be a little more organized! ha Good luck! p.s. those painted rock markers are adorable.
Thank you! No, I’ve never seen watermelons grow! I can only imagine!
plant with caution on those 🙂 ha
Great idea for the garden makers! So cute! And anything that the toddlers can be involved in… all the better.
I am not growing a garden this year although Z has asked if we can grow some watermelon, so I may try to do that although I have a feeling the heat and humidity will kill it. Maybe I will try growing it indoors. 🙂
Thank you-it was a lot of fun! If you haven’t grown watermelons before, maybe check out maggiemaysgifts comments above-apparently they take over…If you do grow them, let me know how it goes!!
Great idea!! I’m planting a garden this spring and I’m going to try this out!
Thanks! The toddler had a lot of fun and they turned out pretty cute!
I wish I had seen this a few months ago! we got RID of our garden beds and put in a swing set. I have the opposite of green thumb!
Lol! This is my first time…who knows, maybe next year we’ll be replacing it with a swing set too…
Oh that’s so awesome! I really want to try gardening (now that I have a yard). I love your painted rocks too.
Thank you! That would be awesome! I’m really excited for ours, but I have no idea what I’m doing!
Gardens are so great for kids! Your daughter is going to have so much fun! I can’t think about gardening yet… it’s still snowing here!
She is loving it already!! I can’t believe there’s so much snow over there this year-insane!
I love this idea. We are getting ready to start are seeds indoors. I can hardly wait to get out in the garden this spring. Snow please melt soon!!!
Thanks! Yes, I was pretty eager-starting my seeds inside mid-February! But our weather has been pretty nice. Of course, after planting the garden, I keep noticing how cold it is still…oops!
How cute!!! Now that we actually have a house and not an apt… Gardening is something I definitely wanna do this summer!
Thanks! Oh, yay! That’s exciting!
These are so so cute! I love the idea.
Thank you!! 😄
Those are so cute! Our kids would love to make some of those. We will have to try it out.
Thank you-glad you like them! They were a lot of fun!