See the garden in the background? I loved helping my grandparents.
What I am planning on doing on this blog is to give you a progress report every couple of weeks of our family garden. We bought some baby plants and also planted seeds. We built two beds last year and added dirt to settle over the past winter.
Here is a list of what we have planted so far, with a few photos:
the vegetable and herb garden
cherry tomatoes
tomatoes
orange peppers and sweet red peppers
basil (the 2 ligher plants)
leeks
zucchini
cucumber
thyme
rosemary
more tomatoes
In our flower patch, we planted a few baby flower plants and a few seeds as well. I didn't take pictures of the dirt, but added a list below the last flower photo.
golden creepy jenny
an Ontario native plant: white gayfeather
beebalm
black-eyed susan
hen and chick plant
in the dirt:
sunflower (mammoth)
green peas
cosmos
four o'clock
We also planted seeds on two different walls around the house:
this one will be (hopefully!) the scarlet runner bean pole
the future nasturtium
We planted this strawberry plant last year and it is doing wonderful this year! I hope the birds leave the fruits alone so we can try them.
Lastly, the children and I asked my husband to stop cutting the grass around our maple tree. We read a great picture book called On Meadowview Street and we were inspired to try to create our own tiny meadow right in our backyard. Once we explained our idea, my husband was game and cut the grass a little longer and in a circle around the base of the tree. It's difficult to tell right now, but he won't cut it anymore from now on, so it will grow fast. He suggested we add some wildflower seeds and topsoil in the circle to help it along. So we did! We can't wait to see how it turns out.
Looks really great! I so love to garden and so do my children. I think it is such a great and long living gift to teach your children what it takes to grow things and then to reap the benefits.
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The garden looks great Alex!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou look like a gardener to me. I don't put anything around my vegetables and usually when I put sticks or support around anything it just flops over anyway. But we still get food from it all. LOL!
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