Baby in my garden!
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Think it’s bad having deer in your garden? Try a toddler!
The day we planted cosmos that my dad brought by as a gift, our toddler went to check out the beautiful booms. We said, “Smell, just smell the flowers,” hoping that he wouldn’t destroy the plants before we could get there to intercept, leaping over raised beds to come to the flowers’ rescue. Well, smell them he did. He took them by the stem, and yanked the cosmos out of the ground, root ball and all, and then smelled the flowers… and then put them under my nose for me to smell the flowers. How sweet.
Replant. Repeat. Replant. Repeat. Replant and give up gardening for the day!
That was a couple weeks ago now, and the cosmos are doing beautifully and no longer attract the attention of our toddler, for he’s found new, fascinating, tasty things in the garden….
Green strawberries! He loves strawberries. Loves them! At 16 months he’s never seen a strawberry grow on a plant nor has he ever seen a mini green strawberry, so how does he know that something the size of a blueberry, pale green in complection, and hidden by a leaf, is a strawberry?! He’s a smart cookie… and I can’t wait until he smartens up and decides that strawberries really do taste better when they’re red. We may never get to that stage though since he’s picked nearly every developing strawberry in the garden, never hesitating, and always stuffing it in his mouth before mom or dad can intercept.
