Earlier this year the kids and I did a "kitchen" experiment. We placed a sweet potato in a large canning jar filled with water. Soon it sprouted, and after time began to grow leaves. Well it was all very fun and exciting, and Raymond kept asking us "what are you going to do with that?"! It soon became too big for the jar. I couldn't bare to throw it out, so I took a chance and planted the potato half way in the soil, so the exposed leaves were on top and the roots in the dirt. It went through a week or so of some major shock, but the potato pulled through!!!!!!! We now have our very own potato ivy growing in the back yard. 
This is our first attempt at a raised garden bed in the back yard. You can see that the plants have grown out of control. We planted tomatoes, zuccini, peppers, cantalope, watermelon, carrots, and CUCUMBERS!!!!! The only thing we seem to be producing fruit with is the CUCUMBERS! We have soooooo many of them! The only thing is they are the craziest lookin cucumbers we have ever seen!!! They are white, and grow more like a squash! Oh well, the kids still love them and can't wait to harvest a new batch each morning!
