Heirloom Garden Woes and Homeschool Week 1 Progress

 Our new property has a very VERY large garden space. In April, I decided it ALL needed to be planted and ordered 15 packets of Heirloom Seeds online. While waiting for my shipment, I had visions of baskets of vegetables covering my kitchen counter. I daydreamed about what I could do to preserve the abundance of produce we would have. Well, sadly, our baskets are not full. Apparently there is a reason that GMO free/Organic seeds and food is more expensive. Most of the seedlings survived but were too suseptable to bugs and disease. Maybe I did it wrong? 

This harvest is from an ordinary seed packet from a local grocery store. There is clearly a difference / :

 On a more positive note, homeschool week one was fantastic. I got this! We stayed on schedule and completed all assignments. Our curriculum this year covers Creation to the Greeks and is so interesting! We wrapped up the week with a traditional Friday evening Sabbath dinner. Each of us had prayers to say, Mike said a blessing for each child individually and then a blessing over the bread and wine. Maddie led us in prayer before hand-washing and Sierra sang us a hymn.

 This year we will be learning about all the traditional feasts.