Here are the fruits of our garden last year that we officially finished up in October. We have enjoyed getting into gardening and being able to eat homegrown food.
We mostly ate little carrots as they were bunched together, but Miriam helped plant them and so there were a few outliers that really grew (Eric's holding one of the specimens). We planted just enough peppers for eating so we planted more this year- got a variety pack of all the colors. Unfortunately we wasted a lot of our tomatoes (just getting into morning sickness), bottom right pic is when we pulled up all the plants on Oct 26- got a couple of boxes worth. The top is Aaron by our strawberry bed. We got a handful of strawberries last year, but have increased significantly this year though fighting with bugs and birds for them. Aaron sure loves to pick and eat them. He's getting better about not picking green ones.
October 14 found Eric and the kids finishing preparing the ground for our fruit way we planted this April. Eric tilled up about 2 foot row all along our back fence and fertilized it before the winter storms come. The kids really enjoyed helping to dig!
Fast forward to April 1 when our fruit arrived. The bottom right is how the row looks along the back fence. The picture on the left is Miriam helping plant the blackberries. Top right is Miriam and Aaron helping dig a hole to place the raspberries. We also planted an almond tree, 2 cherry trees, and grapes. It will be great fun when they start producing. We didn't plant a lot mostly just for fresh eating, but I'm already thinking of salads and parfaits, yummy yum! We also planted a bunch more strawberries figuring we could never have too many.
We decided to wait longer this year to plant besides the onions (3/11) and carrots (4/2). It was a good thing to because this wintry scene was April 29! I didn't think it was a very good joke and it stayed freezing at night through the first part of May. Eric was digging up the last of the roses to take to Delta so we could finish prepping our whole garden area.
Looks a little different here on May 7 when Eric finished roto tilling new compost in. I love how cute the kids are ready for a warm working day. Eric got them the cute matching straw hats, and their camelbacks for Easter.
Of course they had to be in the middle helping Daddy plant on May 21. They also got their own shovels for Easter from my mom.
Planting tomato plants, helping daddy. We also planted peppers, cucumbers, and pumpkins. My role besides taking pictures this year was to sit in my camping chair and give Eric instructions on how to plant the different seeds. I also wrote down in our gardening book what we did and when- sounds tough? ;) Here's to a great garden!
She arrived Wed June 22 at 12:17 pm. I was so glad not to have another one in the night- much better during the day! She weighs 9 lbs 4 oz and is 21 inches long. By far my biggest baby! Her siblings love her lots and lots. 
We mostly ate little carrots as they were bunched together, but Miriam helped plant them and so there were a few outliers that really grew (Eric's holding one of the specimens). We planted just enough peppers for eating so we planted more this year- got a variety pack of all the colors. Unfortunately we wasted a lot of our tomatoes (just getting into morning sickness), bottom right pic is when we pulled up all the plants on Oct 26- got a couple of boxes worth. The top is Aaron by our strawberry bed. We got a handful of strawberries last year, but have increased significantly this year though fighting with bugs and birds for them. Aaron sure loves to pick and eat them. He's getting better about not picking green ones.
October 14 found Eric and the kids finishing preparing the ground for our fruit way we planted this April. Eric tilled up about 2 foot row all along our back fence and fertilized it before the winter storms come. The kids really enjoyed helping to dig!
Fast forward to April 1 when our fruit arrived. The bottom right is how the row looks along the back fence. The picture on the left is Miriam helping plant the blackberries. Top right is Miriam and Aaron helping dig a hole to place the raspberries. We also planted an almond tree, 2 cherry trees, and grapes. It will be great fun when they start producing. We didn't plant a lot mostly just for fresh eating, but I'm already thinking of salads and parfaits, yummy yum! We also planted a bunch more strawberries figuring we could never have too many.
We decided to wait longer this year to plant besides the onions (3/11) and carrots (4/2). It was a good thing to because this wintry scene was April 29! I didn't think it was a very good joke and it stayed freezing at night through the first part of May. Eric was digging up the last of the roses to take to Delta so we could finish prepping our whole garden area.
Looks a little different here on May 7 when Eric finished roto tilling new compost in. I love how cute the kids are ready for a warm working day. Eric got them the cute matching straw hats, and their camelbacks for Easter.
Of course they had to be in the middle helping Daddy plant on May 21. They also got their own shovels for Easter from my mom.
