A Vegetable Garden Tour

Hello again! Today we’ll be heading outside to take a look at the garden.

A little more than a month ago, I referenced the family garden in a post about my flower garden, saying that maybe I would post about it later. Well, today is the day!

Here’s how it’ll work: I decided that I’m just going to show pictures of the plants that have already sprouted. A good portion of the garden was planted only a few days ago, so those photos would pretty much just be dirt and mulch. Instead of that, I’ll just tell you what we planted in those places, without photos. 😉

First stop on the tour, the tomatoes. Right along the front of the garden is a row of two cattle panels supported on posts. Planted below the cattle panels are the tomatoes. On the left of the tomatoes are the peppers. To the right, along with another cattle panel, we’ve planted ornamental pumpkins.

Walking a few steps further into the garden, you’ll find four rows of crowder peas. We planted these from seed saved from last year. To the right of the crowder peas, we planted two rows of okra, also from seed saved from last year.

Moving a bit to the right, We have about three hundred onion plants. They’re not much to look at, at the moment, but hopefully that will change soon. 😉

Next, we have our red and yellow potato patch. I think that the time to harvest these is coming up soon. I can’t wait for fresh potatoes from our garden!

Now, we also have a good portion of the garden seeded, but the seeds haven’t sprouted yet. Lemon squash, yellow squash, zucchini, watermelon, pumpkins, luffa, half-runner beans, cucumber in two varieties, and birdhouse gourds are all in the ground already. And we still have more that we’d like to plant!

Apart from the Main Garden:

A few yards from the larger garden, we have a fenced strawberry patch. Over May and a little into June, we harvested 20+ quarts of strawberries out of this little patch. This is our first year of picking from these plants, so we were pretty excited to be able to have fresh strawberries in our own backyard. Plus, they were delicious! And, if you’re wondering what the little house-with-wheels is back there, that’s where our layer hens live. The shorter, rectangular white things to the right are where we have meat birds.

In the back of the house, my mom planted garlic in a garden bed that my brother made. Oh, and you see that line of fencing at the top of the farthest hill? That’s where the pigs live. 🙂

I should probably add that we are no gardening experts. We’re just trying to figure out what works for us, and each year we learn something new. So, if you have any suggestions or tips, why not share? 😉

I hope you enjoyed this tour. Until next time ~ Emily