Garden

Another Garden Update

Sooo, does anyone want me to mail them some cucumbers or zucchini?

Cucumber and Zucchini Harvest

Our garden is out of control and we’re loving every minute of it! It certainly doesn’t look as neat as it did when we first planted it, but I wouldn’t trade the constant weeding, harvesting, and watering for the world.

Out of control gardenPeppers

So far, Jimmy and I have harvested around 50 cucumbers and zucchini, a few heads of broccoli, and two bunches of swiss chard. Thankfully we’ve been able to share our abundance with friends and family or else we would have a lot of wasted produce.

We’re waiting on our peppers, eggplant, and tomatoes to ripen. We had two grape tomatoes that turned red the other day and they were amazing. I am pumped to cook with eggplant and Jimmy has been checking on the peppers each day because they’re one his favorite foods to dip in hummus.

Swiss Chard Eggplant Tomatoes

If it’s summertime where you live, did you plant a garden?

If so, how is it doing?

Let the gardening begin!

Jimmy and I finally got around to planting our garden! We learned a lot from last year’s garden, so we were excited to get to work.

Garden 2

If any Pittsburgh readers are interested, we bought our seedlings from Bedner’s Farm and Greenhouse. Will tilled, weeded, sprinkled the garden with Preen Organic Weed Preventer and mixed in a few bags of manure and compost about a week before we planted.

We planted San Marzano tomatoes, red grape tomatoes, early girl tomatoes, broccoli, zucchini, cucumbers, orange bell peppers, green bell peppers, eggplant, swiss chard, and cucumbers.

Garden 1

We gave the vegetables a big drink of water and placed some stepping stones within the garden.

Then we got to work on the fence. We had quite a few rabbits and deer eat and step on some of our crops last year, so we decided to install higher fencing. We aren’t quite finished because we’re also going to add another layer of fencing around the bottom so rabbits can’t slip through.

Garden 3 Garden 4

So, that’s where we’re at right now with the garden! Almost done with the initial setup. Next up will be lots of watering, studying how much everything has grown, and weeding. Lots and lots of weeding 😉

Do you grow a garden?

What is your favorite vegetable?