This is for Magan. She asked me to put pictures of my garden on our blog and since I love my garden and talking about it and showing it off, here it is:
In “Garden A,” we’re growing corn (which has not been successful in the past – so we’ll keep our fingers crossed), green onions, carrots, bell peppers, and eggplant!
In “Garden B” we’re growing tomatoes, artichokes (an experiment), New Zealand Spinach (normal spinach doesn’t do so well in Texas), and soy beans. We’ve never grown soy beans (or “poppy beans” as we like to call them) before, but they are doing great so far and our family loves them. Maybe if they work out well enough, we’ll plant enough next time to manufacture our own soy milk, since cow’s milk is over $4 a gallon!
And in “Garden C,” we’re growing cantelope, watermelon, cucumbers, squash, onions, and romaine lettuce.
I’m also growing some herbs in a separate pot: oregano, basil, parsley, and rosemary.
And…that’s how my garden grows.
p.s. Scott commented that you can’t tell how much I love gardening from this post, so I’m adding more. I LOVE IT! The method I use is called Square Foot Gardening. There is virtually no weeding, hardly any thinning, and it’s all so easy to reach. When I was little I really wasn’t excited about gardening. We had a huge part of our side lawn that was full of rows of raspberries that we had to bundle up (remember, this was Rexburg, Idaho) early in the morning and go out to pick, getting all scratched up along the way. Then, when I was a little older, we had a garden (almost as big as my back yard now) that was full of corn. At the end of the summer we would spend a whole day picking, shucking, washing, boiling, cutting, and freezing the corn. We had another garden the same size full of all the other usual vegetables. There was constant weeding to do. I like my gardening much more now!
