Lily’s Garden
By Lily, age 5
I feel the fresh air turn into brightly warm
sun when I am going out to garden with my family. I use all of the tools for
the soil and dirt. I plant lots of good and healthy foods in my garden. When I
do, I feel the soft thud of seeds hitting the dirt and the ground. It feels
like I just woke up from being born. It’s like I never even saw this world. I
start to rake the weeds out of my garden. I go into the house to do other
stuff. Weeks pass and months pass. Soon the plants start shooting out and then
they are done growing. When it’s time to pick there are lots of veggies and
fruits to eat. We pick lots of yummy stuff like tomatoes, cucumbers, and
peppers to eat. It feels like it is my first time ever seeing this feeling.
When I am finished, I go into the house for a long, long time. When I’m in
there my favorite chore is making pickles with my dad. My mom makes salads for
us to eat and smoothies with the fruit she buys at the store. We wait for a
long time until the black earth begins to light and the birds start singing
songs and I feel the worms already wriggling in the dirt. I really like this
season so I never do forget it because I love this time. When I am done
gardening I go into the house for a long, long time again and soon the best day
came when I got to grow even more veggies in our garden. I really love that
feeling, and with corn, potatoes, and beets we make borsch and potato pie and
corn on the cob to eat at barbecues. When I feel the taste of hot pepper, the
juicy tomato, and the rough outside of the beet skin on my fingers I feel like
my life is going to change, and it will be way better when I get to garden all
summer. It was the best life in all my lives.
