How Does Your Garden Grow?

Very well, thank you! This year we're off to a good start with Sun Gold tomatoes, Early Girl tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, red peppers, strawberries, lettuce and herbs. Our weather is warming up and the plants are taking off. I can't wait to taste the fruits of our labor!

Max and Henry climbing the magnolia tree like little monkeys.
Is it any wonder that Henry has a black eye??!!

The Garden

The Gerber Family slogan

Passover Bunny?

So Max came home from preschool today wearing this get-up. I asked him what it was for and he said, "Some holiday we don't celebrate." I asked him if he knew what the holiday was about and he said, "I think it's about eggs."

Passover 2011

All dressed up for Passover

Can we EVER get a photo with the kids making "normal" faces??!!

Plagues finger puppets?! A bit on the insensitive side, don't you think?

Max is ready for the seder

Henry making another crazy face

The seder crowd

Papa reads the Haggadah

Uncle Omri and "Aunt" Alexa

Aunt Polly and Uncle Sonny's 50th

We had a great time this weekend celebrating Aunt Polly and Uncle Sonny's 50th wedding anniversary. Cousins Kelly and Brian hosted a family BBQ at their home in Laguna. Scott and I decided to throw the boys into the Subaru and head south to attend this gala event. It was a lot of driving for a 30-hour trip, but totally worth it! Polly and Sonny are an inspiration -- fifty years together and still going strong! I hope that Scott and I are so lucky.

West Wind A's

Ladybugs to the Rescue!

For the past couple years we've had a lot of trouble with aphids in our roses. I tried the organic insecticides, and they seemed to have little to no effect. I have been reluctant to try anything stronger because the rose bushes are right next to our vegetable garden.

This year, the roses are just starting to fill out and bud, and already they are COVERED in those nasty little aphids. A friend suggested ladybugs and what do you know -- they sell them here in town in neat little plastic containers! Apparently, ladybugs love aphids more than anything and can eat hundreds of them per day. The boys and I "released" the ladybugs into our garden this evening and marveled as we watched them crawl up the plants and start in on their favorite cuisine.

We wish our ladybug friends "Bon Appetit"!