Here are some pictures of our garden. We planted most of our garden in April 2008. A few days before we planted our potatoes, we cut them each into two or three pieces. The reason we did that is so that the cut surface could dry out. My dad said that we do that so the seed potato does not rot. We planted them about six inches apart and covered them in about two inches of soil. I was the one assigned to plant our carrots. I discovered that if you place the seeds about one or two inches apart, the carrots will grow much bigger. Then when the carrots grew a little bit, I thinned them out. We also planted corn, onions, peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, green beans, red beets, sweet potatoes, and sunflowers in our garden. All of the vegetables that we planted need air, water, and sunlight to live, just like a Christian needs to pray and read their Bible every day.

Our garden is in a location where it does not receive enough sunlight. Some of the plants grow taller than normal in an attempt to reach for the sun. Due to the lack of sunlight, some of the plants like the green beans need to be strung up because they are weak. If we did not pull out the weeds, they would take up the water that our vegetables need to grow. The same is in our lives; when we do not remove the weeds of sin, they can take up the time that we could spend doing things to grow in Christ.

When we were harvesting our corn, most of the ears were smaller than normal due to the lack of sunlight. But other vegetables like green beans, potatoes, and onions did good. To keep our green beans from being eaten by rabbits and groundhogs, we put a fence around the rabbits' favorite vegetables. The most important time to have a fence up is when the vegetables are very small, because that is when the rabbits and groundhogs like to eat them. The fence does not protect from bugs. Japanese beetles like to eat the leaves on our green beans. My sister picks them off and feeds them to our chickens.