Our Garden...

Inquiring minds have wanted to know what we're up to with our garden this year, so here's the run-down! Since it's gotten so hot so early, we've already gotten a lot of it in the ground! Fingers crossed we don't get another frost! Our frost date is April 15th, so I think we'll be okay.

Here Jeff is watering the cauliflower, cabbage, and broccoli. Jeff said if all the cabbage grows in, we'll have about 70 lbs of it. Recipes to share, anyone??? In the round part he's planted carrots (new this year). Along the fence on that side are snow peas (yum!) and flat green beans (also new this year). Also in the foreground is romaine lettuce (the plant) and we've planted leaf lettuce & spinach seeds. (By the way, Jeff was unhappy I got him in the picture!)

Last year we planted asparagus. It takes asparagus several years before it produces, so we bought "old" plants. This year we've already gotten about 6 or 7 spears!

Did I mention we have 60 square feet of strawberries??? We didn't get any from it last year, but we've got quite a few flowers on it so far this year... good thing we bought a freezer this winter! And the cylinders you see in the back are potatoes.

All of the pots I used for my herbs on the patio cracked over this ridiculously cold winter. So this year, I've claimed part of the garden for them. Today I planted cilantro and italian flat leaf parsley. We'll get some basil seeds soon to plant, but we won't plant nearly as much as we did last year! Still lots of pesto in the freezer! To the right of the herbs (out of the photo) are our two blueberry bushes that have TONS of buds on them. Last year the birds got all of the blueberries, so we'll have to cover them earlier this time!

And the rest of the garden is still living in cups... zucchini, cucumbers, and tomatoes! Actually he planted the zucchini today (I took the picture of the cups yesterday!). We have what we think are cucumbers growing in the garden from the compost we put in it last year. We'll let it grow and see what it is. I'm sure we'll have a few "volunteer" tomatoes too! Plus, we'll buy a jalapeno plant and green bell pepper plant (just one of each this year!) in a couple weeks to plant... assuming we still have room at that point.

I also got to plant some petunias in my big flower pot out front today. I love having a little color out there. I need help figuring out how else to do that. White house, black shutters, and green shrubs can be boring. Fortunately, our azaleas are about to bloom, so we'll have some bright pink for about a week.