Growing a Garden

 Last year I worked with my hubby on our garden, he has always been the garden person in our family.  I just went along with it...

Suddenly, I am the gardener.  This year it is my baby!  I researched and have totally made it my own.  Instead of row gardening like we usually do, I am trying out square foot gardening.

Row gardens are plants in rows, with a walkway typically between each row, kind of like a farmer has.

Square foot gardening is more of a grid-type of garden, usually used in raised beds, but ours are still in-ground.  You plant according to the square foot, anywhere from 1-9 plants per square foot.  You can fit in a lot of produce in a smaller space that way.

We are growing:  

tomatoes (staking them and pruning them to a single stalk): cherry, roma, and slicers.

herbs: parsley, oregano, cilantro, sage, thyme, rosemary, basil

cucumber

squash: zucchini, summer squash

beets, carrots, onions, radishes

peppers: mini red, green bell, and jalepeno

leaf lettuce

broccoli

watermelon

They are growing wonderfully after a cold spring and delayed planting.  We had a lot of wind so I couldn't acclimate them from indoors to outdoors, and they suffered for a bit after they were planted outdoors, but now a few weeks later, they are growing well!