Garden Part 1

How do you define old? At what point are you considered old. To my kids, I am sure that I have officially reached that point. Why? Because my garden is bringing me so much joy! I call my dad to talk about our gardens about twice a week (that might be an exaggeration, but I call a lot!) I am so happy that things are actually growing and I have been successful, on my scale of garden successfulness anyway. My cute little kids cannot get me to google "how to download pictures from your droid?" But the pictures from my garden did!!! So excited to see the extent of what we get to "harvest" this year. I've learned a lot of not to's... but overall happy with the results so far. Can't wait to see my potatoes in my tires. You're supposed to be able to get 50-100 lbs per stack of 4. We'll see :)

I learned that if you put a dab of glue on toilet paper and stick your seed on it, you will have perfectly spaced plants. It worked AMAZING!!! The kids loved helping put the glue on, carry it out to the garden, lightly cover. They are planting experts now, haha!

My romas. The leaves look a little dry because the sprinkler is in the back of these bushy plants so the front leaves are getting dry (I assume. The back leaves are looking good?)  I am going to make my own sun dried tomatos. I had some on a homemade pizza the other day and cannot wait to make my own. Sooooo good!

My little tiny one is a jalepeno plant we thought that we had killed. It almost didn't make it through that really hot spell.

We're going to add three strawberry plants a year and hopefully fill this area soon. We need to put something up to cover the ugliness under the deck. It'll come! I caught Colby eating something the other day and fished it out of his mouth. It was a strawberry. He comes over and picks them. He looks for the biggest ones too! The day they are classified as "red", Cars and Baylee eat them. Not one has been brought inside yet.