It’s that time of year again! Are you ready to start your
spring garden? Time to plant tomatoes and lettuce for those summer salads.
Last weekend I started planting my garden, with much needed
help in labor from friends. Every year getting the garden going invigorates me,
to write, to get outside and go hiking, and just to enjoy watching my plants
grow. I love growing food, so my crop this year will include corn, pumpkins,
beans, tomatoes, lettuce, strawberries, grapes, and just for kicks a little
patch of wheat. You don’t need a big yard to grow enough to feed the family for
the summer.
What are you planting in your garden this year? Maybe you
have a little window box full of herbs? Or perhaps you just like getting out
and enjoying nature’s wildflowers? How’s your spring shaping up?
We have a really nice farmer's stand we stop by...
ReplyDeleteWe tried herbs once. Those died. Not good with plants.
I love gardening - just lack the time at the moment.
ReplyDeleteAnd the British weather is totally pants at the moment. We've just had more snow IN APRIL.
I plan to do the herby/veg thing in my pots again this year as long as things pick up!
Nothing because its a quagmire from relentless rain! I'll stick to window sill herbs!
ReplyDeleteOh,yes, gardening is the salt of life. I have some garlic shoots coming up that my son and I planted last fall. It's our first try at growing garlic so I'm very excited. We'll grow kale, green beans, lettuce, spinach and some other things... our garden is fairly small still. Here, it's still a bit too cold to plant.
ReplyDeleteYou are lucky to have a garden...I just buy plants...spring is very very busy Mark but I have treated myself to visits to the nursery...glad you are gardening...may you have many delicious foods to eat : )
ReplyDeleteThe weather here is so crazy (there's snow on my lawn right now) that you can't plant anything until after Mother's day, but I look forward to it!
ReplyDeleteI look at seed packets and remember my childhood. that is about as close as I will get. Sadly.
ReplyDeleteI love it when other people garden.. because when they have too much stuff, they give it to me! :) haha
ReplyDeleteI enjoy gardening...but it can be very frustrating here in CO. Some of our late spring snows can ruin a well laid plan.
ReplyDeleteHello Mark...We cannot really garden because there is way too much shade in our yard from gargantuan trees, hundreds of years old.
ReplyDeleteI do keep some flowers and I'd like to have pots of herbs this summer. I get them from the farmers markets.
Hope your garden is wonderful. Susan
This year we have maybe 10 kinds of heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, pole beans, zucchini, eggplant, and several kinds of peppers. Wheat will be interesting!
ReplyDeleteI'm sticking to herbs at the moment, and it seems to be working!
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Spring has just got interesting. At last we have some sun here in London. Time to tackle the garden, methinks.
ReplyDeleteGood reminder to get my herb garden going . . . Thanks!
ReplyDeleteROFL. We're just waiting for the snow to melt. My hubby does the gardening. I have no idea what he has planned.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you'll have an amazing garden!
ReplyDeleteWe don't really have a garden. Plants here and there around the house is as close as it gets.
It sounds like quite a few of you want some produce...I don't mind sharing, but I guess I'll have to find a way to ship it to you:)
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