Our Best Crop This Year - Carrots

My New Favourite Garden Edible - Snap Peas

Our First Veggies of the Season - Radishes

Bringing the Outside In

One of the things I love about our house are the many beautiful plants and flowers that bloom every year. The previous tenants were horticulturists and now we get to enjoy their expertise.  Our rose bushes do amazingly well, they get bigger every season and seem to overflow with roses. So I never hesitate to cut a few and bring them indoors :)

Garden Update

 Radishes

 More Radishes - always the quickest crop

 Peas - these are new to us this year

 Tomatos

 Initially we thought all our tomato plants didn't survive the transition outdoors, but they seem to be doing better now. They are even growing new green leaves, thank goodness because these were a gift from our neighbours :)

 Zucchini - these will have to be thinned unless we want a stock pile of zucchini again

 More radishes - also need a bit of thinning

 Oh and Circus of course! He is standing over our row of beets...

 Carrots

And the whole plot

Planting Our Vegetable Garden

 First Step - Spread our compost over the soil

 Second step - Measure out our rows and label our garden stakes

 Third step - Make a trough and plant our seeds

Fourth step - transfer our already growing tomato plants

Last step - admire our vegetable patch and eagerly await the first signs of sprouting

Backyard Happenings

 Circus likes to 'help' with the crass cutting

Good thing its burning season around here, we sure have a lot of yard waste this year

 Luke climbing one of our trees

 The wheelbarrow full of grass clippings

 I think I jinxed it with my last post.... Mother nature reminded us that spring is still young

Growing Our First Vegetable Garden - Part 8

The Harvest:

Wow, I am just loving our garden, everyday there is something ripe, fresh, colourful and ready to be harvested.  I can't believe how much those zucchini's grew, it seemed they doubled in size overnight!  I am going to have quite a few zucchinis to give away, and I am looking forward to sharing our bounty with our friends and neighbours.  

Growing Our First Vegetable Garden Part 7

Carrots are coming along nicely and zucchinis make an appearance:

Someone's Been Playing in My Garden

 I wonder who it could be? Do the dirty paws give it away?   That's okay buddy, I love playing in the garden too :)