Our garden has been doing much better this year than it did last year. This year we planted peas, lettuce, spinach, carrots, radishes, cilantro, beans, cucumbers, strawberries, and of course tomatoes. Here are just a few pictures of the things we have harvested:
Our lettuce and spinach plants did amazing. We just kept cutting them and they kept growing back. We got about 6-7 big Ziploc bags full of lettuce and spinach through out the summer. Our pea plants also did well. We would pick hand fulls every few days. I don't know how to can peas but that is okay I guess because we loved to just snack on them all summer long. Our carrots were also great. I love home grown veggies because they taste so much better. Our carrots were especially good. I didn't get any pictures of the radishes because they are early growers but we had a lot of those too. They cilantro did not do so well. It grew and made our garden smell really good but we didn't really know how to pick it properly for it to continue to grow into bunches so it ended up just going to seed and then dying. We only got a few little sprigs off of the plants. Our beans didn't do very well either, well one of the bean plants did but the others died. We planted 6 bean plants and only one survived. But this one plant has done pretty well and we have picked quite a few beans off of it. Our cucumber is struggling but living. It has so far given us 4 cucumbers because it will only grow one at a time. They have been good though. And finally our tomato plants. Tomatoes must be really late bloomers in Cache Valley because we have not had many yet. There are a lot of green tomatoes on the vines but so far only a few have turned red. Really we have only got enough to have a few tomatoes sandwiches here and there so far. We keep hoping they will all turn red so we can make some more salsa. Anyway that is our garden so far this year. After buying a 12 x 100ish foot parcel of land next to us, we have big plans to set up a huge garden for next yer. We are excited and are trying to decide how big we want and what to plant. So far we are thinking blackberries!
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