Nathaniel the Gardener

The sun is rising and everyone's asleep, except for Nathaniel who is sitting on the couch next to me, turning the pages of a garden book, and explaining to me how they (the author of the book) say to garden.

For brussell sprouts- they put up a gate and then they keep the bad plants outside the gate and they won't come in and eat the sprout plants.

For carrots- they get lumps of dirt and then they take the lumps of dirt and put the carrot in it and it grows with water.

For cauliflower- they flatten the dirt and then they start putting the seeds in the dirt then they spread the dirt around every where, I think, and then they water the dirt, and the plants start growing.

We should plant some fennel. First they grow where there's lot of dirt and grass and hay aaaaaand they put the seeds in there and then they start growing, growing-

MOM, we should grow these (garlic on the facing page) We used to grow garlic and now we don't, and I want to plant some garlic. The plants are very flat, and a little crunchy dirt and the seeds go there and you water them and the start growing.

The kohlrabi grows in hay that's broken. (that's the author's mulch)

Leek grows beside lots of rocks stacked up (the background was a house foundation), and they digged some holes and put the seeds in, and then they cut the seed, and then they watered the seeds and then the seeds start growing to a long carrot that's yummy with chicken.

I'm not ever growing mushrooms because they grow in the dark, and you might be scared and fall over them in the dark and make you dead, so I'm not ever going to grow them.

The parsnip carrot is too big. I wonder why the parsnip carrots grow big like a giant elephant. They get crunchy dirt that has big crunches and little crunches. Then they dig holes and the put the seed in the hole and then they start watering and THEN the seed starts growing. It's kinda the same as the other ones.

This year I wanted to grow potatoes and pumpkin. I think some day we growed a pumpkin. Dirt is flat with sticks on it and a gate around it, and the next chapter: dig a hole and then they put the seeds in and then they start watering the seeds and then the seeds start growing, that is the title, mom.

Would you like to grow squash (winter squash)? I do, I like any kind of squash.

Well, now the battery is going out so, I'll have to stop- but I wanted to remember Nathaniel's enthusiasm for gardening :)