Our Spring Garden.

Hello.  I wanted to post a picture of our garden before everything gets into full swing. We have our lettuce bed there behind the irises doing well. It sure doesn’t look like much of a lettuce bed, but I’ll tell you what, that is plenty for our family of 9 to harvest enough for 2 meals a week. We’ve been using it for burritos and tacos, taco salad, and regular green salads. So, plenty plenty. I’ll remember, for next year, to plant in several installments, rather than all at once.

My irises have done very well this year. Last year I planted them the summer before last and then in the spring and they weren’t really established, but this year I’ve had just hundreds of blooms. I love them.

The fruit and nut trees survived the late frost, so we will have fruit. THe nut trees are still very young so I doubt we’ll get anything from them for a bit, yet. But still, it’s exciting to see them flourishing in new leafiness.

I neglected my starts and all my baby plants died one warm day while we were out and about. Normally I’m home and would have remembered to water, but well, there is no excuse and they’re all dead. SO, we bought a few varieties of tomatoes and peppers, and a few herbs from the nursery,  and replanted some of the not-so-cool-weather  plants from seed.  I think we’ve missed the window for cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts and cabbage. The peas are doing well and blossoming already. So hopefully soon we’ll have peas for our stirfy! Also a new thing this year: we planted the entire front yard in popcorn. Should be a fun harvest for the kids. I don’t know how well our neighbors will like our new landscaping plan, but so what. We are in a pretty laid-back area, so I’m hoping people will laugh and not make waves over it. Wes built a drip system out of a piece of pvc pipe, drilled with holes at the spacing of our rows. It’s wonderful.

Chas has a tutorial on growing potatoes. If I can get hold of some seed potatoes I’m going to try it. Thanks Chas!

Have a gorgeous day!