☼ Grow your own damn Food! ☼

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These weekly posts are to share the progress of our garden; sharing photos and our gardening experiments and will hopefully inspire you to grow your own garden too! :) 

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Sooooo, it's been a reaaaaally long time since I updated the garden posts, huh? Wellll, let's just say that our garden has been thriving like crazy! 

Our tomato plants are taller than I am. And the tomato plants that we thought were done definitely came back to life! We also took one of the branches from one tomato plant and planted it in the same bed--because we heard you could do this. At first they looked dead but they, too, came back to life and are now also thriving. 

Our zucchini plants are producing so much that we can't keep up! We've been sharing and freezing and getting creative. ;) 

The broccoli is now huuuuge. I need to take more photos I think. This is the first year we've actually had broccoli that worked! The plant is much bigger than I was expecting it to become, while the broccoli itself hasn't been all that big. The sprouting broccoli didn't last too long but was good. 

Our peas were fantastic. They are all done now, have been for a while. So we planted some different spinach (the name escapes me, I'll ask the hubby later) and it's tolerant to heat so it's been awesome having it! 

The beans have been great. :)

I think the saddest moment was pulling up the lettuce that had bolted. I miss salad. We planted new lettuce but it's been slow starting and we sillily added compost into the soil so now we have all these squash and other wonders popping up from the seeds of compost. Oops! 

Well, the rest I'll just share some photos that I've already taken and I'll do another round this week with more photos next week. ;)

Hope your gardens are thriving and abundant! ^_^

[Humming Bird!]

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☼ Grow your own damn Food! ☼

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These weekly posts are to share the progress of our garden; sharing photos and our gardening experiments and will hopefully inspire you to grow your own garden too! :) 

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 [happy kale!]

Alright! Missed last week *gasp*

[happy orach spinach]

So, we planted our beans finally. :) They are in triangles around the two bamboo trellis we built (which we moved to the third bed in the back). 

We also planted a row of bolt-resistant lettuce (which I don't remember the name of, I'll dig it up soon!). And we mulched the bed with grass clippings. Everything in this bed is doing nicely. 

[happy swiss chard and pok choi / broccoli] 

[happy lettuce]

Though most of our spinach went to seed. 

Our mustard greens went to seed as well. Our kale is enormous and happy though and we've been able to harvest every single day for smoothies and salads. 

We pulled up the mustard greens, except for a few plants that hadn't gone to seed and some that had so that we can save the seeds later. In place, we planted a cantaloupe and honeydew melon starts that Cory picked up yesterday in town. 

There are two tomato starts we have inside that are doing super well so we are probably going to plant those soon since the starts my sister gave us sadly don't look like they're going to make it. I think the soil is just too dry in the back of that bed so we'll plant these elsewhere. We also have some mountain spinach starts that love the sun so those were planted in the pea bed. So far they look very happy. 

[bolted spinach in the pea bed / new mountain spinach]

Our strawberries are starting to flower so hopefully not too long before we are eating fresh strawberries. 

We also discovered a strawberry plant at the side of our back steps so we should be getting a few strawberries from there as well. 

In the back bed… we staked the tomatoes with bamboo poles. 

The zucchini plants are so happy and getting so big!! We are super excited as we've never been able to grow zucchinis and these are so super happy! Our peppers and tomatoes still look happy as well. :) 

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