Garden -- And New Habits

I am terrible about keeping detailed, organized records and even keeping up with records most of the time. I am more of a do-er and it always feels like record keeping is a waste of time. I know that's not true and it's something I want to work on.

Genealogy is one of my many hobbies. While sharing with Jared some of the local news from where my family is from during the early 1900's -- one article mentioned it was a great huckleberry year. My husband remarked that that's something our generation won't have; print snippets of the little mundane things that go on in our lives. That's where the idea to start back on this blog came from. Last year (2019) was a great huckleberry year for us too! This year, not so much. I'm hoping it will be a good year for blackberries though.

With the theme of good harvests I figured I'd start by blogging a little bit about this years' garden. I'm a little late to the game as far as exactly what I planted and when. But there are a few things I can remember, or look back on the seed packets for specific varieties.

Here's the layout of our Garden so far. After the peas, beets, and spinach are done for the season, I plan to plant squash and zucchini in that bed.

This garden sits inside of a 10' x 10' dog kennel we had purchased for our dogs when we first moved out here. Patrick and I lived in the RV while waiting on our manufactured home to arrive and that was a small space for us plus 4 dogs. The kennel also let me leave the property and leave the dogs behind.  Once we had a house we no longer needed the kennel. The wildlife proved a menace as far as growing edible things so I decided to have Jared build me raised beds inside the kennel. It has worked perfectly. The vine crops can climb the chain-link fencing making more room for other crops in our small space. 

This weekend we have more garden plans but more on that when it happens.

Below are a few pictures of our garden.

Peas, beets and spinach

Tomatoes, pole beans, marigolds and basil

Strawberries

Cucumbers and bush beans. 

It's still early for the cucumbers and bush beans. I had planted the bean seeds straight into the ground a week or so ago and out of 6 only 2 came up. We did have a cold front move in with lots of rain. Maybe that's what happened? Today I re-planted the four that didn't come up and I planted the cantaloupe.  

Well that's all for today. Here's hoping I come back again within the next week.