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Well, all this gardening stuff is very new to me. My dear husband has a family history of gardening and decided to try it out for himself last summer.
He saw a man at Home Depot buying tomato plants and thought, "I can do that", and bought some. He then also planted squash, peppers, and beans. Well, the only thing that really grew well was the squash. We had squash coming out of our ears!
He has been inspired to try to eventually have a big enough garden to be able to sustain our family. He was inspired by this book:
This whole past year my DH has been researching and learning about gardening. He ordered seeds in plenty of time to plant seedlings, and we have added lots of different things to the mix. We have also been composting all year so that we are able to use that in the garden this year.
Here is what we are planting this year:
Yellow squash, tomatoes, spaghetti squash, butternut squash, peppers, lettuce, broccoli, green beans, sweet potatoes, red potatoes, blueberries, and strawberries. We are also planting flowers to attract good bugs to eat the bad bugs. Our goal is to have a completely organic garden.
DH planted the seedlings a few weeks ago and we have already had to transfer the green beans to a big bucket. The strawberries and blueberries came to us as plants and he planted those right away.
Here are some pictures:
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| Seedlings at about 2 weeks |
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| Beans growing out of control! |
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| Sweet potatoes! My favorite! |
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| Red potatoes |
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| Blueberries top, beans transplanted bottom |
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| Blueberries |
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| Green beans |
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| All ready for planting |
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| Strawberries |
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| compost |
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| Our guest bedroom greenhouse |
What about you? What are you planting in your garden this year?
We have strawberry plants in our backyard. They didn't yield very many strawberries last year (just a few very tiny ones). The plants survived the winter and are coming up again. We'll see if they do better this year. I heard it takes three years to get good berries. We are planning on planting more stuff in May. Your sweet potatoes look awesome!
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