Here’s a garden update in words:
I grew lettuce, but it bolted before I got to eat any of it.
The sun has finally made an appearance, and the peppers are loving it.
We have more leeks than we know what to do with.
I cut my first flowers.  I smile every time I see them.
Most of the broccoli [...]

I finally made it out to the garden tonight.  I thought I should since I can’t remember the last time I went and with a change in weather, the garden needed some water.  I’m feeling like my garden is an after thought this year.  Tonight, one of my fellow gardeners said, “I haven’t seen much [...]

Here’s the latest from the garden (taken last week).  The peppers are in, can’t wait to eat those.  Plus on the other side of the garden bed I planted our first crop of carrots, broccoli, and few different types of lettuce.  I’ve never grown broccoli or lettuce.  Can’t wait to learn more about it this [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
All right, I finally sat down Friday night and put together a plan on paper for our garden.  I’m sure things will change as I start to plant, but it’s always helpful to me to have a big picture as my guide.  This year I changed the layout of the garden bed to one long [...]

And the Adventures in Gardening continues….
I hadn’t touched out pea patch since October and this is what I found when I went one morning to check it out

Just about everyone else had started their gardens, and mine was completely covered in weeds!  As you can see the morning I went to check it out, it [...]

My garden is out of control.  I lost control way back in July when I started to work again.  I just didn’t have the time nor the motivation to drive up to the garden and spend the evening weeding and tending.  Despite my lack of attentiveness, I’ve had a bounteous harvest, which continues to this [...]

Well, the garden is moving along quite smoothly for my first time.  Every time I visit it, I’m amazed at how big everything is getting.  The tomatoes are monstrous, and the bush beans are out of control!  The strawberries are being eaten before I can get to them.  Hopefully I’ll be putting a little chicken [...]

It’s been a month since I planted the starts in the garden and just over two weeks since Jeremy and I planted corn, beans and carrots.  We’ve had really good success so far.  We lost three of our basil starts to the cooler weather.  The peppers are just now starting to grow a bit.  But [...]

I think the most daunting task of the whole garden has actually been trying to decide what to grow and how much of each to grow.  While at the family reunion I worked with my Mom and then my Dad to come up with some layout ideas of the garden.  The night before we headed [...]

As I learned in all my reading and talking, that the most important part to a healthy, hearty garden is to have AMAZING soil.  I’ve worked really hard to properly prepare our soil.  Here’s how it went…
1.  Original Plot.  This is what I had to work with

2. Soil Admendment.  I weeded and loosened the top [...]