Our Garden

We had so much fun tilling, digging, planting and weeding this year we can't wait to do it all again next year! OKAY, mabey only I had fun, but it was still worth it!! For those of you who are not familiar withour area, we had a very strange start to our growing season. It snow here the first week of June so as you can imagine that made getting any sort of decent crop hard to come by. Thank heavens for my greenhouse!

We knew going it to the season that the corn was a BIG mabey, but it sure is pretty and the animals love eating the stalks for us!

I have all of our major veggies going on in these 2 -16'X4' gardenboxes this year, but next year we intend to add at least 2 more. We would like to have a total of about 16 boxes, but of course I need a large root cellar before that is going to happen. Ian next year wants to create a "Community Garden" were people can come use some of our garden space to plant theirs. I'll let you know if we sort out all the red tape.

We planted 5 semi-dwarf fruit trees this year (2-cherry, 2-apple and 1-peach) Next year we will add at least 5 more and so on until we have a orchard of 30 trees!! A good friend told me that semi-dwarfs are great because at least then you can reach all of the fruit at harvest time without risking your neck -I thought that made a lot of sense since I'm scared of heights!

I said about 50+ times this year, "If I can harvest just one melon this year, I will view my garden as a success!" This one was delicious...YUM!!