A tour of things around our garden

    Nothing better than getting your hands in the dirt, planting edibles and watching them grow. I get so happy when I go outback and tend to our garden. One of the most rewarding parts of gardening is the food you get out of it! Here's a little tour of our garden and what's growing so far:

Tomatoes: (check out the little buds!)

This is a beautiful deep red heirloom tomato. Seeds started indoor from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. 

Curly leaf kale (left) dinosaur kale (right)

Chet's Italian hard neck garlic:

We have done hard and soft neck and we enjoy hard neck much more. Easier to grow and better for storing. 

Spinach

June bearing strawberries

Purple carrots

Give carrots nice sandy loose soil that is well worked and they should do pretty well. Make sure to remove and rocks from your bed or you will have some split carrots. 

Rainbow chard

Red onions

You can see these onions are getting pretty nice and thick. Some have more than 12 rings (you can tell how many rings by how many leaves it has). Onions are so easy to grow, I'd recommend starting with sets to make it a bit easier. 

 Herbs

Top picture is cilantro, tarragon, cilantro. Bottom picture is dill, thyme, oregano. 

Spearmint

 

Some flowers for their beautiful color

Marigolds are great to keep some bad bugs from eating your garden. Make a little "wall" of them and they will add beauty and be very helpful. 

     Our peppers, cucumbers and squash are not in the ground yet. They tend to do better in warmer temps so I will be putting them out in another week to keep from stunting them. 

     I hope you enjoyed this little tour. We have very limited space here in the city but we get the most out of every square inch we've got! What are you growing this year? Any gardening tips to share?

I plant my tomatoes with crushed egg shell, my peppers with match sticks and I will soon be watering with Epsom salts. Let me know some of the things you do in your garden. 

~ Janet ✌ happy digging. 😄