Our Garden

Since my friend Nickie was asking about our garden in a comment last month. I thought I should try a blog series on our family garden. From start to finish. Or in other words, from planting to preserving.
We have three raised beds in our front yard because we don't have much of a back yard. And the house faces south, so the front yard has the most hours of sun each day. I'm not the sort of gardener who starts things from seed indoors. Mostly because I'm lazy but also because we don't really have a good place to put them. None of our windows really get enough sunlight. So, we buy veggie starts for the most part. This year our garden has herbs, lettuce, spinach, green bush beans, and four tomato plants (heirloom, yellow, cherry and roma). We decided to put zucchini in a pot this year to see how that works. They take up so much room in the garden, we hope that putting them in a separate container will help save some space. We also planted sweet peas, snap peas, and carrots from seed.
Here's my helper digging and getting ready to plant some pea seeds a few weeks ago.And here he is helping me plant the seeds too.My goal is to keep updating the garden's progress but maybe also add some recipes we try. Three years ago we ate, canned or preserved everything that we harvested from our garden. The second piece of my goal is to also share that part of the process. So, stay tuned. We already have peas sprouting!