Our Garden

We worked so hard to get our garden started this year.  Including building a planter for our strawberries and trellis kind of things for our peas and beans.  We worked to nourish our soil, take out a fence from the garden, get out all of the tree shoots, plant and label the garden.  Then it was a lot of watering as we had nearly no rain all summer.  But the work was very worthwhile as we have never had such a productive garden ever!

We planted potatoes into those buckets.  They did so well in there.  We filled then up with more soil later to help them produce more.

We planted lots of raspberry plants in this spot.  They did pretty well, even for their first year there.  We look forward to lots of raspberries in future years!

We had a very fun time making these pretty sticks for labeling our rows.  It was beautiful and very helpful!

This was our little tomato plants.  They started out at only a couple of inches and we babied them inside and out for a few weeks.  It was a new experience for me but they did very well!

 Here is Dawsyn, my best garden helper, out in front of the tomatoes.  

 Here is our beautiful garden.  This was even in the middle of the summer.  Some of it got even more full!  Like those beans growing up the trellis, They were up over the top onto the other side!  They were amazing.  We ate all that we could along through the summer and still had the most incredible harvest at the end.  We couldn't have eaten more peas or green beans then we had.  Dawsyn picked carrots all summer and we still have more to last us months after harvest time.

 It was great family time to spend taking in our harvest together!

We ate potatoes nearly every day!  They were so good fresh from the garden!

It just kept coming.  We had large harvests a number of times, even after feeling like we ate so much as things came up.  We were so successful this year and look forward to enjoying a large garden, and learning more in the process, for years to come!