Not only do we have vegetables growing in our garden plots in the community garden, but we also have vegetables in flower pots in our backyard that my kids love to tend to! We are growing lettuce, cauliflower and potatoes in larger flower pots along with peas, beans and green onions in smaller flower pots….
Category: In Our Garden

Watching Our Garden Grow
It’s June 26 and our garden is growing amazingly well! Some vegetables are still just sprouting or yet to sprout, while others are up and growing and vegetables like lettuce, spinach, green onions and baby dill can be used already. In our small planter, we have zucchini, spinach, lettuce and green onions growing. Our zucchini…

Our Garden’s Progress
We love checking on the progress of our garden. Often, in just a few days, especially after rain and some warm sunshine, our garden’s progress is really noticeable. Our potatoes here are growing great! We made sure that the hills still have lots of dirt, and added where it needed. Most of the onions are…

Checking on our Garden
In just a few short days, warm weather and wonderful rain, we have much more sprouting up in our garden. Let’s check on the garden. We have patty pans sprouted (which are also called summer squash or scallop squash). They are tender, require no peeling and are delicious sliced and sauteed in butter and oil…

Welcome to our Garden
We planted our garden now a few weeks ago, and things are starting to sprout and grow! It is so exciting to see what is growing after weeding and watering and looking after it! Raised flower beds are a great way to grow vegetables and things like strawberries or pineberries. They do not take up…

Planting Our City Garden
2020 has been an interesting year with COVID-19 and limited food supply in grocery stores (whether the stores ran out or were limiting purchases). I always knew we relied far too much on the grocery stores for our food and throughout the years, I knew we needed to provide for ourselves as much as possible….

Propagating Spider Plants
Spider plants are easy to grow and simple to maintain and produce scapes that produce beautiful blooms that will turn into spider plants that can be clipped and planted!