Aa the weather dipped into below freezing temperatures this week and we had a "snow day", it seems like an appropriate time to post some of the highlights from our first summer of gardening. we had so much fun planting and experimenting and then enjoying the bounty of our harvest! we successfully grew: tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, spinach, basil, carrots, beets, potatoes, basil, jalapenos, bell peppers, 1 sweet meat squash (that took over half the garden with its vines), green onions, garlic, kale, zucchini, raspberries, blueberries and strawberries. we were most pleased with our zucchini and tomato plants, as well as the strawberries. amos found a strawberry today, midway through november!
next year, we hope to grow more cucumbers, broccoli, and cabbage, as well as figure out how to grow bigger onions. we started as many things as we could from seed inside the house before transplanting them and will continue that method. luke's favorite guide to gardening was Steve Solomon's
Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades.
warning: lots of photos to follow. i just couldn't narrow it down any further!
here's the bounty of the earth!
