How does your garden grow?

Last year with all of your yard construction we were silly and decided in about July that we wanted to try a garden. Needless to say, it didn't work so well. I think the only thing that didn't die were our strawberries and we actually got 2 or 3! So, this year we decided to give it another try and start planting earlier in the year! We used seeds and baby tomato, pepper, and cucumber plants. We did a couple different kinds of lettuce, tomatoes and peppers to see which worked best and which we liked better! It is going a lot better than we thought! It's almost pathetic how excited we get when we go out and see new things growing and things ripening! (It's so fun to see Nate get so excited over a garden!!)

This is what our garden looked like 3 weeks ago (6/9)




Rhubarb (Nate's idea! He can't wait to make pies with it!)



Cucumber



Peppers



Peas



Carrots



Strawberries



Lettuce




And this was our garden last night! I decided to go out and see if there were any fun things we would actually be able to eat! (We have had Chicken Cesar Salad twice already with lettuce fresh from our garden! It's so much fun!)



Peas



Carrots, Lettuce, Strawberries



Tomatoes



Cucumber



Lettuce



Rhubarb



Yummy things I found....... with much more to come soon!!



While I was playing in the garden, Braxton was hangin out, basking in the sun!



We've have learned many things from our garden this year!

• Cucumber needs a LOT of room
• Don't plant so many carrot seeds and keep them together - we have a ton in 2 different places
• Peas need a wall to climb up - their little vines need something to attach to and it should be each other
• Don't plant so many pea seeds next year either
• Watermelon is hard keep alive - I don't think we'll try it again next year
• Give the Strawberries a little more room making it a little easier to keep them from shooting into the plants next to them