A Tepee and Beans….

…and marigolds.

Today we put together a project that I’ve been wanting to do for a while…. we built a tepee, and planted beans around the sticks, so they can climb up…

Pretty! 😀

These are the beans – they eventually become “blue climbing” beans… just right for a healthy snack after a hard day’s play!

The cleared ground.

The tepee – should be big enough for both of them (if they don’t move around too much 😀 )

Little boy planting beans..

Big boy planting marigolds (companion plant – good for pest control)

A family project…

Little boy watering 😀

The last photos make it look as if we were planting in the dead of night… it’s just that it was getting closer to dusk (5.30ish), and the light wasn’t good enough; I had to use the flash…

They’re supposed to start sprouting in a few days, and will hopefully be edible sometime at the start of winter…