Garden Glory
As a child I was lucky to have grown up with an enormous vegetable garden which saved us from ever eating canned or frozen vegetables from the grocery store. Living on 100 acres gave us plenty of room for flower and vegetable gardens. I suppose it’s no surprise that I am gardening for myself again. Other than a previous year in Vermont, I haven’t had any sort of garden until now.
Along with our complete and beautiful landscape I am excited to say that we have our very own 300 square foot patch of “garden glory”. This year will be a bit of an experiment since I’ve never grown anything in Colorado before. Two weeks ago we planted peas, tomatoes, peppers, beans, carrots, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, cucumbers, onions and a list of herbs.
Sadly our soil here is a lovely clay that bakes to a crisp in the summer sun. Not only is it hard to dig and plant in, it isn’t a very promising bed of nutrients. So we’ve taken the plunge into composting. It’s nice to know that we won’t be throwing away our valuable food scraps anymore and we will have rich soil to add to the garden as well as the lawn. I wanted to share some pictures of what we have started and hopefully there will be beautiful vegetable shots to come.
Good to see you are posting some pictures again. Your plants look great and I love the “toad”. Beautiful pictues of Justin and Parker.