Our garden is growing!

We moved into our house almost a year ago and have had non stop projects ever since. I have to admit I had no idea how much work a brand new house would be. Last year we started our landscaping and put in our fence and this year we have continued to add to our landscaping, put in a paver patio and got our garden boxes put together just in time to plant them.

I haven't had a garden since I lived at home and worked in my parent's garden. Which was a long time ago and means I have never been the one responsible to decide what to plant and where. So this was quite the experiment this year. We built 6 boxes and also planted some blackberries, raspberries, and rhubarb in the ground next to the house. The boxes are filled with peppers, tomatoes, carrots, onions, zucchini, cucumbers, beans, and strawberries.

So far we have only gotten a couple of raspberries, but it is early and things are well on their way. Things have done much better than I expected and I have already learned a lot about what I will do different next year. It is funny to me that with all of my horticulture/landscaping background that a vegetable garden is so foreign to me. You would think that they would have a lot in common, but I am discovering they are two very different beasts. Hopefully in my retirement from professional landscaping I will learn more about home vegetable gardening.