Lexi will have her store up and going this fall and I am going to log the whole experience. Lexi is six and the biggest busy body ever. We bought her this store so she can sell our extra flowers, herbs, and vegetables.
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She and I built the store from the kit on Christmas day last year. Yes that is real produce. Mark and I had to buy it all too. We'll have to work on her pricing before we get out there. She knows what organically, home grown vegetables are worth. Still we can't charge $1 each for potatoes. We were going to begin in the spring (2011). It is too bad we didn’t because we had a killer year in the garden. There was too much going on at work but that is another story.
Next month we will plant the fall garden and I will blog all about what we will be planting and how it is going. We just planted a banana tree a few weeks ago but that is not going well so far. I don’t blame the tree, it is really hot right now. Hopefully it will survive the summer. I’ll keep you posted. We are also transplanting the avocado trees. They were planted last year (I think) and they are doing pretty well. Mark is going to put them on the side of the house so they only get morning sun.
They will have good company back there with the plum tree (doing awesome) and the grapevines which are springing up everywhere you look. We missed most of the grapes this summer because we were gone but I did eat a few and they were good. (Pinot Noir grapes but they taste like tiny table grapes). The vines are so easy to grow and so green and lush. I don’t know why more people don’t grow grapes here. They do have seeds which some people don’t like and which freaks kids out at first but they are tasty and sweet. I should use the leaves and make stuffed grape leaves sometime. (I will)
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