Don’t wait to plant a vegetable garden!
A vegetable garden has many benefits like it can be green and organic! Plus it can be a lot of fun and a learning experience besides! Also, while you are at it you can scrap it too!
When I was a child my mother showed her children how to plant a vegetable garden. It wasn’t very much fun to prepare the soil, but was fun to plant the seeds and watch them grow. She would give a patch of ground to plant and take care of, and by the end of the growing season it was a delight to harvest our labors of love.
She taught us many lessons as we gardened. We learned how to rotate the 
plants as not to exhaust the soil. This understanding really sank in when in High School we had to read “Grapes of Wrath”, where the dust bowl was partly created from land that had became exhausted from one crop planting. Then later the land couldn’t sustain any crop, and the farmers living off the land had to leave.
She taught us about using natural fertilizers, like composting — this was decades before this type of going “GREEN” was so popular! Our veggie garden was also organic as we didn’t use any chemical pesticides, instead she showed us how to use lady bugs to eat some of the harmful pests, and other such natural remedies.
I didn’t understand how important this knowledge was at the time, and how later in life I would hear on the News how dangerous some of the chemicals are on food crops. And because of the way she taught us children gardening, we would know many ways to be Organic in our own gardens, and pass this knowledge on to our children too!
Besides learning about vegetable gardening, you can’t help but learn about patience, hard work and sowing what you reap! These concepts work well in other parts of life too!
My only regret is that we don’t have any photos of these happy times together planning or harvesting our garden. To make matters worse, when I taught my own children about gardening I didn’t take many photos either!
I think now it would be fun to make a scrapbook with are gardening memories and give it to my mother – but without having the photos it makes it harder to do. So, if you are planting a vegetable garden with your children or even on your own. Take a few photos and scrap them so you can really preserve and enjoy the memories later on!
Here are some ideas to take garden photos of and scrap them too!
- Getting the soil ready
- Planting the seeds or young plants
- Recording the growth of the plants
- Capture a bloom and all the stages of turning into a pumpkin (or other veggie)
- The family enjoying time together in the garden
- Picking and Harvesting the vegetables
- Recipes made from your harvest
- Herb Gardens
- Container Gardens
- Growing fruit like watermelons and cantaloupes
- Having the weirdest veggie contest
- Which family member can get the largest harvest
- Which family member can grow a surprise vegetable variety
These are just a few ideas to get you started! Once you have the photos, then start scrapping them! You can also turn you scrapbooking pages into a digital album (PDF format) and email them to family and friends!
Have a great time gardening this year, and remember to capture some of the adventure and scrap it to keep the memories alive!
Cheri
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Scrap Your Garden with these Kits:
The Gardening 2 Digital Scrapbooking Kit is an adorable, country-style garden-themed kit, great for digitally scrapping another one of your favorite hobbies … gardening!
Use this fun, earth-tone kit to scrap your favorite photos of the kids planting flowers or your favorite fruit and veggies growing in your garden! This kit comes with 11×8.5″ digital papers and several digital embellishments!
See another Garden Kit:
The Gardening 1 Digital Scrapbooking Kit is an adorable, country-style garden-themed kit, great for digitally scrapping another one of your favorite hobbies … gardening!
Use this fun, earth-tone kit to scrap your favorite photos of the kids planting flowers or your favorite fruit and veggies growing in your garden! This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several digital embellishments!
Also check out this garden kit:
The Gardening 3 Digital Scrapbooking Kit is great for digitally scrapping another one of your favorite hobbies – gardening! The Kit has adorable, country-style garden-themed paper and embellishments, great for digitally scrapping garden pages! This kit comes with 8.5×11″ digital papers and several digital embellishments!
Combine your favorite ways to relax, gardening and digital scrapbooking, and turn them into new masterpieces! Mix and match the digital papers with the super-cute gardening digital embellishments with a few photos, and you have begun creating beautiful gardening digital scrapbooking pages!
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Training that would help you Make Digital PDF Scrap Albums
How to Make a PDF Scrapbooking Album using Photoshop Elements 8 is a great Intermediate 2-part tutorial set that will teach you all about the basics of making a digital scrapbooking album that you can email, print or view on a computer. This lesson will show you how to make just one PDF scrap page, or take multiple digital scrapbooking pages and combine them into album that is in the PDF format using Photoshop Elements 8!
Once you have a digital album you can email your whole digital scrapbooking album to friends and family! Learn how to turn just one page or multiple pages into the PDF format that most everyone can read with Adobe’s FREE Acrobat Reader for PDF formatted documents Also learn how to make a PDF that can work like a slideshow and showcase your digital scrapbooking pages.
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