Our garden baby

At last we have a workable garden that seems to be exactly what we can handle this summer. We still need to add a few pepper plants, but other than that, all veggies/flowers are in place. We have both 4x4 beds fenced off to keep out the rabbits. The cucumbers look great so far. We have fenced in the entire garden area with fishing line to keep the deer from eating the tomatoes, which are well on their way to producing some yummy fruit. There is also a small digging section for those who just cannot resist the urge to DIG. God willing, I would love to be able to can some jars of tomatoes to use for homemade spaghetti sauce. I added a horizontal tomato trellis that covers the entire bed and provides support for all of the tomatoes and cucumbers as a group. We would also like to cover the area that we are not gardening vegetables in with old pieces of area rug to inhibit weed growth. Elijah has also requested that we plant a butterfly bush. We will see what we can accomplish before our actual sweet pea baby is born. Although we have spent more money than we ever planned to, this years gardening adventure has provided us with some great knowledge as to easier, more efficient gardening with lots of little ones.
Love,
A mama who would love to grow a green thumb

Little green helpers

My kids are totally digging (not literally) the new raised bed set up of our garden. We have 2- 4x4 raised beds and a row of sunflowers. The rest of the area is theirs to dig in. They are helping by adding worms, watering the plants, and just keeping me company twice a day as I water. Isabella is my morning helper. She grabs her little pink camping chair at 7am and will sit there for a good 10 minutes while I mosey around the garden. She has been told each morning for the past week that there are tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans planted that we will hopefully be able to enjoy within the next month. I wish that we would have experimented with the raised beds before spending so much time and $ fiddling around with the other garden. I hope to be able to continue to learn and get better at raised bed, square foot gardening as time passes. We plan on planting a cold bed to include at least some yummy lettuce and spinach.
Elijah really enjoys actually planting things right into the dirt. This weekend, he planted a pot of marigolds in a hanging basket to aid in repelling some of the mosquitoes.