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   So, Neal can earn an “arrow” for scouts if he grows a garden.  It doesn’t say what size, just a garden.  The other day we went to the nursery and bought 4 tomato plants:

• BIG Beef
• Super Sweet 100 (Cherry)
• Orange
• Taxi (Yellow)

and two pepper plants:

• Red
• Orange

(We believe in colorful gardens and salsa!)  I helped him plant his “garden” last Saturday. 

When he was finished, he went and played with our backyard neighbor.  While playing, he threw a basketball over the fence.  It landed right on top of BIG Beef and snapped it off!  Well, Riley thought that was so funny that he started throwing balls at the tomato plants on purpose and killed the Super Sweet 100. 

I think they’ll grow back, but it will be a couple of weeks until we know for sure and I don’t want to be 2 weeks behind.  So, today we went back to the nursery and bought new plants to replace the dead plants.  We’ll plant them on Saturday.  As protection, I’ll put the body guards up (cages) even though the plants are not big enough yet to need them!!!