Not much of a garden…
Never seem to get a lot.
10 points to whoever knows what song I altered! Stephen and I used to make up funny versions of this song all the time. Obviously we still get a kick out of it.
We planted our garden in February, and at the time I took these pictures (at least a month ago) we were only getting carrots, and green onions. Now we’re getting a whole heck of a lot more!
These are the roses my mom wanted. They change color as they age! Super cool.
Oh yeah, we were getting zucchini too. And still are. I’ve made tons of zucchini bread and I’m gonna make zucchini cobbler too.
Here’s one of our garden boxes. You can see the corn near the top of the picture (it’s taller than our fence now!) We had to cage it up with string because of the heavy wind we’ve had recently. You can also see our green onions, carrots and yellow squash.
A close-up of the (from left to right or L-R) peas (which have since died), green onions, carrots, and yellow squash.
(L-R) We’ve got corn, our spinach (which was eaten by something) and the peas. Ooh, I forgot to mention that everything grown in this box was done from seed!
On it’s own is the artichoke plant…in three years we’ll have one!
These are my herbs. From bottom to top is the rosemary, oregano, basil and behind the basil is the sage. Oh yeah, there are corn leaves at the top.
The second garden box, with our composter in the back. We bought most of these when they were little. The zucchini is up front and the tomatoes are towards the back.
Our strawberry plant. Unfortunately the strawberries are being eaten birds and we have to keep whacking back the zucchini which wants to grow over it.
My cucumbers which have yet to produce any. Bummer.
The sweet peppers which were from seed. They are still tiny and are finally flowering.
Our red-leaf lettuce (we had green-leaf too) but they were bitter, so we threw them out.
Jelly-bean tomatoes. And now they’re ready!
Lesson-learned: don’t put the yellow squash next to the zucchini or this is what you get. You should have seen the yellow squash! They were half-green! Too funny.
Camera shy: mint, big boy tomato, marigolds, cilantro, swiss chard, bush beans, partially dying grape plants, and a patio tomato plant.
I am so glad we used the garden as a learning tool and not as a matter of survival. We’ve learned so much from it. I’m soo excited for next year! One day I’ll write down all we’ve learned and show all the fun things Stephen knows what to do with the garden.
