Last Year's Garden Adventure

Howdy, Everyone! It's been awhile since I actually posted about our family and what we're up to. Last year I had planned to put our pictures of our garden beds and plants but never got around to it so here I am with pictures of our raised garden beds and some of the fruit from our labour. We had started late but still got some vegetables and herbs out of the garden. This year we are right on schedule pretty much. i have already planted some things in the garden like more kale(we have two patches of nicely grown kale already but wanted to plant more kale),peas, more spinach that'll hopefully get up there with the mature spinach we already have in one of the beds, broccoli(you should see the broccoli from last year... tons of little broccoli's growing out in side shoots),more cabbage ( green and red), chinese cabbage, more lettuce- salad blend, red lettuce, butter crunch, radishes, & more turnips.

I have also started some seeds indoors and will include what all I have started indoors in the next blog post.

Happy Gardening!

Here are the pictures from last year:
We mostly we did transplants and planted a few from seed. Since, we started late we did the transplants but this time it's mainly from seed with only a few transplants.

As you scroll down you will see some of our work that we did in layering our raised beds. We used newspaper, straw, composted manure from cow and rabbit, coconut coir, & top soil. We use rabbit manure, composted chicken manure, and worm castings for fertilizer plus a little bit of pure. But, when my comfrey plant gets big enough to use more of I am going to make a tea with it for fertilizing our garden. I will post the recipe in a separate post. I got the recipe from Homestead Blessings," The Art Of Herbs." I recommend all of their dvds. I checked them out from our local library.