A FEW ROWS OF BEETS, KALE, AND KOHLRABI
OUR FIRST TRY AT A BOX GARDEN... PEPPERS AND TOMATOES
CARROTS, ONIONS, SPINACH, LETTUCE, AND MORE KOHLRABI.
BEANS AND PEAS
NOW HERE IS THE CRAZY PART... THE PART I AM SURE MY NEIGHBORS LOVE TO LOOK AT... ALL THE CRAZINESS THAT GREW UP FROM LAST YEAR...NOW THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT...THAT IS THE EASIEST KIND OF GARDENING. THE KIND YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO PLANT AND IT JUST STARTS GROWING:) IT LOOKS A LITTLE WOOLY, BUT I COULDN'T JUST CUT IT DOWN FOR THE SAKE OF A DECENT LOOKING YARD.
WE HAVE BEEN EATING LETTUCE FOR THE LAST MONTH OUT OF HERE. THERE ARE ALSO A COUPLE TOMATO PLANTS... MAYBE SOME EGGPLANT, SOME YELLOW SQUASH, AND FOR A WHILE WE THOUGHT ZUCCHINI, BUT IT IS LOOKING MORE LIKE THERE MIGHT BE PUMPKINS GROWING.
THE HILARIOUS PART IS THAT LAST YEAR OUR GARDEN WAS A TOTAL DISASTER... VERY SMALL AMOUNT TO ACTUALLY HARVEST. THE THINGS THAT ARE GROWING UP THIS YEAR NEVER REALLY GREW LAST YEAR AND LAST YEAR THEY WERE PLANTED IN A TOTALLY DIFFERENT PART OF THE GARDEN. BIZARRE...
SO THIS YEAR WE DECIDED TO TRY A COUPLE OF BOX GARDENS. IN MY HEART I THINK THIS IS THE WAY TO GO... A LITTLE COSTLY TO START OUT. BUT THERE IS NO WEEDING... AHH... THAT IS THE BEST.
SO WE HAVE ANOTHER AREA OF THE GARDEN WITH ASPARAGUS THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO PICK NEXT YEAR. WE ALSO HAVE SOME RASPBERRY, BLACKBERRY, AND BLUEBERRY BUSHES. WE ARE ALSO HOPING TO GET THE CUCUMBERS AND POLE BEANS PLANTED TODAY... AND MAYBE SOME SPICES.:)
WE WILL SEE... I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ON HOW AND IF THINGS KEEP GROWING. GARDENING IS SO FUN WITH THE KIDS. IT IS AMAZING TO SEE ALL OF THIS LIFE SPRING FORTH FROM A TINY SEED. WHAT A NEAT GIFT GOD GIVES US IN GARDENING.
HE IS THE ONE WHO MAKES IT GROW... NOW WE WILL SEE IF I CAN KEEP IT GROWING:)
3 comments:
We started to get into gardening last year, but it DID NOT go to well! All that grew were 1 inch carrots and 1 inch radishes and a few 2 inch peppers! We got pretty good tomatoes though :D
It has to be much cooler here than there, Sara. But our plants aren't anywhere as big as yours are, so that's one benefit to the heat. And those plants that come up even though you didn't plant them (there)are "volunteer" plants. I've learned this from my hubby who is a farm boy.
I think we are going to try a garden next year. Several of my neighbors are growing them...I LOVE things that grow and come up without having to be babied!!
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