This Year's Gardening Adventure

Howdy Yall!
So, here's all that's been going on in our garden and our projects that have to do with the garden(so far).



We are building hoop houses over our raised beds. In this one there is only 3 beds but we are also growing in Smart Pots and Gro Pots thus we have alot of pots in the place of where a 3rd bed would of been. Smart Pots and Gro Pots are made of a breathable fabric. They make it so that it aerates and there is air flow. And if you decide to plant your transplants for good in the ground or in a raised bed they allow the roots to grow through the pot. I recommend looking them up online. We are pretty happy with them

These are older pics from a couple months ago I think. I just never uploaded them till now. Everything in these photos were much smaller but they are thriving and have grown quite a bit. I will Lord-willing, update with newer photos here and there.

This picture below is actually one I took today of the biggest turnip that Pa harvested today. The other's of the turnips and the one beet were taken today.
























Spearmint-That thing has taken over the bed that I was gonna use for herbs. Last year I had planted blue balsam mint and peppermint next to the spearmint not realizing that in doing so that they would cross....that means that the blue balsam mint is no longer sweeter or stronger tasting than the peppermint. Spearmint is stronger than the both so they ended up tasting sort of like the spearmint! The mints have really grown especially the spearmint.




Salad blend- you should see it now they are really growing. In fact, I harvested some for a salad today for our lunch.
















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Some of our peas. Some are Wando peas.

Onions...saw a bee on the flowers so I left the flowers.



Sugar Snap Peas





A lil' wando pea in another section comin' up.

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.