Garden 2011

I don't think I started this blog soon enough last year to chronicle our garden from last year. This is mostly due to the major event that was taken place in my husband and I's lives last year. We got married! It's crazy to think that our first anniversary is coming up!

Anyway I did get a garden out this year--two for that matter. The garden in the backyard got a make-over with three new raised beds for my veggies. I came up with the idea to try raised beds with mulched paths in between the beds to help with weed control. I'll be getting newspaper and grass clippings out soon took try to keep weeds from springing up in unwanted places. As you can see from the pictures, the beds only take up half of the garden. The other half has potatoes and onions, as well as a few vagabond grape and strawberry plants from out neighbor. As for the contents of the raised beds:


Far left: This is my salad bowl...err, box. Two kinds of lettuce (bib & mixed loose leaf), kale, leeks, green onions, black cherry tomatoes and spinach. A fence will be going up shortly to keep the bunnies out.

Center: Lots of peppers (although the bunnies already clipped a few). Green, yellow, and read bell peppers, Marchoni peppers-longer sweet peppers, and Ichiban eggplant.

Far right: HERBS! Lots-o-Basil, rosemary, mint, thyme, Italian flat-leaf parsley, onion chives and some sage that hasn't been planted yet.

I mentioned that I actually have two gardens this year. My husband's grandmother gave me free-range in her garden this year. Her garden is quite a bit bigger, but it was fun to try to fill with all kinds of veggie goodies.

I planted:

• green beans
• tomatoes
• more eggplant
• zucchini squash
• yellow summer squash
• butternut squash
• acorn squash
• sugar pumpkins

Grandma already had lettuce, spinach, peppers, cabbage, radishes, and beats.

There should be a bounty of produce, Lord willing, this summer and through the fall. Let's hope the rains and weather (and those pesky rabbits) cooperate!