The vegetable garden is coming along nicely, thanks to daily TLC from me.
Here's what things looked like right after my big past-the-frost-free-date planting (a three day long gardening extravaganza that left me with *very* sore knees, wrists and shoulders!)
Here's the way it's shaping up now - this was taken 3 or 4 days ago. We had our first salad with spinach and lettuce from our garden this week (it tastes so much better when you've grown it yourself!)
So what's growing in there? In the main raised bed in the photos, there's spinach, lettuce, pumpkins, watermelon (!!!), broccoli, cabbage (green and red), zucchini, patty pan squash, scarlet runner beans, bush beans (green and yellow), onions (white and red), carrots, garlic, thyme (regular and golden), garlic chives, peppermint, basil (green and purple), lavendar, oregano, and a few nasturtiums thrown in for good measure! In the side beds, there are some of the same things, plus strawberries, a blueberry bush, raspberry canes, potatoes, canteloupe (well, technically musk melon), pickling cucumbers, and dill. If all goes well, we should have enough to feed the whole street.
The other big project around here in the last few weeks has been construction of the boy's "treehouse". There's no actual tree involved, but it is up off the ground in typical treehouse fashion.
Here's day 2 of construction (day 1 involved wrestling the corner posts into correct position)
Here we are about 2/3rds of the way through the project (of course all the neighbourhood kids have been to check it out, plus most of the parents too!)
Ahh, what a beautiful site! The completed treehouse. Now I can get Joe to start working on the fence that needs to go across the back of our property (on second thought, our bank account needs to recover from the outlay for the treehouse first!)
Amidst all this flurry of activity, both Nathan and Noah came down with the chickenpox (just to add a bit more excitement to our life). Thank goodness they're on the mend and will be mostly recovered (just a few residual spots but no longer contagious) for our camping trip next week - we leave Tuesday morning!
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I love seeing the before and after pics of your garden, and appreciate you listing what you're growing.
DH and I have been talking about trying some small raised beds. He's an old hand at growing vegetables, but I'm new at it. We have a small back yard and only a small area of it is not being used, but we both think we could grow a few things in that small unused area. It's fun to think about!
We're doing a bit of container gardening this year -- tomatoes and jalapenos so DH can make his own salsa =)
And a few weeks ago, my son asked if we could keep the seeds out of a bell pepper we cut up for dinner, so we dried the seeds and planted them and now we have seedlings -- that's the first time *I* have grown anything edible from seeds that we dried ourselves!!! And I wouldn't have thought of doing it if it hadn't been for my unschooled kiddo's request =)
The treehouse is most cool!!!
Glenda (Shine list)
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