Oh, Mommy! I really like eating the chives. They're my favorite.

Who knew?

It's best to pull a cantankerous weed early.

Even if it takes a lot of muscle, clear the bed fully before you sow the crops.  It becomes impossible to pull once the vegetables start to grow.  And every time you reach in to harvest a yellow squash, there is that weed, strong and deep and intractable and leaching the nutrients from your precious plantings' soil.

Besides, the best bugs are always hiding in the roots.

It will take one minute of playing with those earthworms before he decides they would look good in your hair.

Or his hair.  Or his baby sister's hair.

It's easy to learn colors when you're looking for the sweet ripe red strawberry among the sour green and white ones.

A three year old boy can hold six earthworms in one hand at one time before they start escaping.

And escape they will.  In the most grotesque curly cued slitherings in between each of the fingers of the clasped hand.  He will find this hysterical and amazing.

The universe in a green bean is the circle of life.

Watching your own child watching the seed which he planted grow to the plant that blossoms that bears the fruit that he eats right there in the garden that you both grew together.