How many gardeners do we have out there?! If you are a farmer’s wife like me, I am sure lots! Last summer I planted my first ever garden!! I was scared, nervous, and excited to see if anything would even grow! I could only hope and pray I would be blessed with my great-grandmother’s gardening skills.
In late May, my hubby helped me plan, plant, and seed my entire garden! It was a great and fun marriage building activity to do together! It was OUR garden! For just about each seed we planted, I said a little prayer that it would grow. I really, truly, deeply wanted to be good at gardening. So many farmer’s wives and wives that I know, have huge and successful gardens.
Turns out, I had a pretty successful garden! Even my brother-in-law joked with Taylor saying “I think she is a better farmer than you”! That made my day!
I had lettuce growing so fast, I could hardly keep up! The raccoons got the best of my sweet corn, but hopefully this year my hubby will fix something up so they can’t eat all of it, and we get to have a couple of cobs! My carrots, peas, and beans froze very nicely and we still enjoy them throughout the year! My potatoes were by far my favorite to garden! They did awesome! I still have some left and they will by my bulbs for this year! I also had some pretty good sized pumpkins and cucumbers did well too. I surprised even myself with my new-found gardening skills!
Lately, I have started planning more creatively as to what I want to do and see in my garden this year! I just got some seed catalogues in the mail this week and you could say, it got me in the mood for all things spring and all things garden! I can’t wait!
This year, I plan to plant once again sweet corn, lettuce, peas, beans, cucumbers, potatoes, radishes, pumpkins, zucchini, squash, melons, and carrots. I am thinking of expanding my garden spot a little more with all these melons. Last year, my pumpkin plant pretty much took over my entire garden at the end of the summer!
I would also like to try tomatoes, and then make big batches of tomato and spaghetti sauce in the fall. I plan on doing some sunflowers on the edges of my garden this year, just to make it pretty. I’d also like to do some stone edging on the front side of my garden, since it is in the middle of our yard, on the side of our house.
Of course, last year, I had a few things that didn’t come up like peppers and my herbs (lavender and spearmint). I was a little disappointed because I wanted to try my hand in making homemade body scrubs and soaps. I’ll save myself some heartache and work because I don’t think I will be planting any of those again this year.
This year, I would like to see good to better yields and produce better produce overall. I am trying Sugar Snap Snow Peas this year instead. Shelling peas for one whole Sunday, from sun up to sun down was not fun! And I swore last year, that I would never do it again so, this year I am getting the edible pods! It will make blanching and freezing so much easier!
Do you plant a garden? What are you planting this year?!
I leave you with warm thought of all things spring and sunny days ahead!! Happy Thursday! xo
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