Earlier in the season, I explained that my dear husband urged me to do a much smaller garden this year, mainly due to how sick I’ve been with this pregnancy and the fact that I should be very pregnant by the end of the summer and probably won’t want to be doing too much work in the garden.
So, very simply, we have two raised beds with several types of tomatoes, four types of peppers (hot and sweet), carrots, two types of basil, parsley, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumber and pickling cucumber. I also have a pot with mint and another with a bean that Grace grew at school. I think it might be a Lima bean. I guess we’ll find out!
I had to be creative with the garden, though. I had planned to do square-foot gardening exactly to plan, but ended up tweaking it so I could fit more and it make it work better for what I had. I went to a locally owned garden center where they were selling 36 plants for only $10. They forced me to change things up in the garden. Fortunately, I have some leftover plants to share with friends because I had already grown several from seed.
Last summer, I purchased two blueberry plants. Unfortunately, one was mowed down in the fall, but the other is doing quite well. We’re excited to taste some blueberries very soon. We also have a cherry tree and two pears trees that we hope will give us fruit during the warmer summer months.
