The weather is heading towards downright delightful lately with a few days of cold or rainy thrown in during the week. Last spring we started our first two organic container gardens. Josh gets the wood and builds the containers and fills them with the right mix of compost, peat moss, and vermeculite and then we planted different edible seeds and let the magic unfold. We had some great carrots, parsley, dill, basil, and squash. The rest died out when we got some snow and then the three days of hard freeze. So to prepare for the upcoming growing season we decided to build three more garden containers and plant quite a bit more. We have started with lettuce mix, kale, carrots, cucumbers, pepper, tomatoes, strawberries, mint, thyme, basil, dill, watercress, cantaloupe, watermelon, onions, rosemary, chocolate mint, cilantro, parsley, and squash. We spent the weekend getting the other three built and ready. We also added a compost bin (the lovely black box in the background) and have planted a meyer lemon tree and lime tree. We're waiting on the shipment of Valencia orange trees to come in. I've posted some pics of my boys and their day of gardening!
A girl scout cookie break...
What mess?
New rain boots became gardening boots...
Lime tree
Established container garden bed
A container from last fall going strong...
Growing like a weed...
Where it all began...
We're loving being able to go out and get what we want for dinner and it's fantastically more affordable! We're also hoping to be able to use a lot of it in our juicer. I have big plans to drink my greens daily to get them down...I'll let you know how that turns out!
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Great pictures of the boys and Josh! What a fun time they are having learning about gardening! Very impressed with you all!
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