Grow a vegetable garden

My potato plants are getting HUGE! I hope there is a TON of potatoes under there! I forgot how pretty potato plants are:) Can’t wait till they blossom:)
Tomatos are coming along great, carrots are finally recovering from the SHEEP ATTACK! radishes and turnips are looking like they should:) Habenaro and jalapenos looking great! still not calling this goal done till it is harvested though!

our first potatoes, a few beets, baby carrots and spring onions. I will pick a lettuce later for the salad.

I’m counting this as done now!! Zonino!!

I know it is lame to some… but to see the potatoes coming up.. to bite intot the first ripe tomato and sharing it with Dare is just blissful:) I forgot how much I loved gardening and growing vegetables. I grow flowers every year.. but there is just really something amazing about producing your own food:) I love it!

I’ve already planted and use regularly an herb used in Caribbean cuisine (“recao”). I want to grow a full vegetable garden, though, with carrots, lettuce, tomato, rosemary, peppers, etc. I’m not doing it overnight; I’m taking it step by step.

we ate lettuce from our garden and harvested the Strawberry – whic is now in pride of place in our fruit bowl on top of al the shop bought fruit. Still trying to decide how to serve it.

Got all my plants and seeds planted this past weekend! Now come the daily care and maintenance.

I really don’t have the yard for this. I have tried in the past and I end up with a few $20 tomatoes. I am going to grow a flower garden for my bees instead and try to buy local produce and support those who can grow good vegetables.

Yay! Everything is coming along slowly but surely;)

Every year I grow vegetables in my garden, but this year I would like to have a bumper crop. Salads all summer and enough tomatoes and peppers to can salsa for the winter. This means daily work in the garden right up to the bitter end—first freeze. Off to a good start with tents over all my plants. Plan on finishing the spring planting in the next week.

got the poly on the greenhouse and got some raised beds built! woohoo! Hopefully a couple more days and it will be finished! We wanted to build a nice wooden fence or a willow waddle fence around the garden area, however that would take away from the time we have to accually work on the garden so i took some of the fencing panels and placed them around the area to protect it from most of the critters. Doesn’t look to nice but once we have time we are going to replace it with the wooden one and expand the area a little;)
Here is a pic of part of what is done so far- this is the view from the side.. (the one I took from the front looked too blurry to post)But I will try to find time to take a new one today:)
All my seeds are planted though a few of the flowers I bought from the greenhouse look a little ill… I think they got overwatered as we were ALL watering them making sure they were taken care of.. ie: Loving them to DEATH:)

I also found my seed potatoes! Not the kind I wanted.. but they seem to be the only ones left in town, so they will have to do.
I am so pleased we have gotton so much accomplished and on time! My back is so sore from shoveling a whole truckload of dirt but it will be worth it!