Earth Day and my garden

It's earth day today, and I thought I would help celebrate by sharing my plans for my vegetable garden. I am planning to do a large veggie garden this year. Last years garden was a bit pitiful due to my chemo induced fatigue and the fact that I was unable to be in the sun at all.

 

I have some of my plants already. I am tending to them by putting them outside in the sun on warm days and keeping them inside at night so the frost does not get to them.

 

I have eggplant.

 

Banana peppers and sweet bell peppers.

 

I have four tomato plants, three regular size and one cherry tomato. The cherry tomatoes are my favorite. I love to go into the garden and just pluck them off the plant and pop them into my mouth. There is really nothing like it.

I also have some onion sets and I am picking up some potatoes, bush cucumber, yellow squash, zucchini, and lettuce sometime this week. I also try to plant a couple rows of cutting flowers every year If I have room. It is nice to be able to have fresh flowers in the house all summer.

I have a lot of fond memories of our HUGE garden we had growing up. We grew everything, and my Mom fed us all year long with her canned and frozen fruits and vegetables we harvested every year. We even had a very large rhubarb patch. We would be hustled out to the garden about once a week by my parents and were each given a row to weed. I seemed like it took forever when we were doing it but I am sure it was not really that long. We always ended up having rotten tomato battles afterwards. Picking the stinky rotten fruits off the vine and hurling them at the nearest person. Once and a while one of us would get one right in the middle of our back or on the side of the face. It was gross, but a lot of fun.

Growing up on a farm was great, Happy Earth Day!

Comments

[hayseed]

Good thinking getting a jump start on your garden-I'm not really doing that since I thought the two kitties would mess around with the plants-but maybe I should try anyway. I do have a vegetable garden, but I try to keep it quite simple: squash, tomatoes, zucchini, cukes and sometimes eggplant or pumpkins.

[Firefly Hill]

Happy Earth Day Sarah! My little plants are coming along too...yours are a lot bigger than mine. But I guess you are closer to putting them in the ground than me. I love having a garden...

annie

[Teri]

Looking forward to sharing in your gardening journey! I would love to have a garden, but have never done it and feel somewhat intimidated about the whole thing!

As far as raising chickens, I think they are one of the easiest animals to raise once they are past the chick stage. They require a lot of attention at that fragile time. But once they get about 8 weeks, the job gets easier. They do need a predator proof shelter to roost at night, however. My first venture into chickenville was with 12 barred rock chicks! They can be very entertaining!

[tracey petersen]

We'll be vegetable sisters.

[Starwoodgal]

I want to plant a small garden this year. Hubby is not motivated.......... yet.

We're going to "Race for the Cure" this weekend. I'll be thinking of you. :)

[Brother Coleman]

I planted my tomato plants last night. They join the spring peas, cabbage, pole beans, & spinach I already have in. The Richmond south side farmers market starts in two weeks, can't wait. I'm really jonesing for some fresh veggies.

[Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com]

Your pictures are really making me jealous. If I take a picture of a tomato plant, it looks like a tomato plant. When you take a picture of a tomato plant, I want to go start a garden.

[Sally Stump]

It seems like every day was earth day on the farm, always something to do even if you did not love doing it. I loved living on the farm and to have the freedom of being outside most of the time, living with nature. I think I got my intense love of flowers from my grandmother. Your father taught me to can the first summer we were married and I am still at it.

[Samantha ~ Holly & Zac ~]

I think it would be really nice to have a vegetable garden.
I think they taste so much nicer than shop brought.
Your childhood garden memories sound fun.:-)

[Annie]

You guys got into tomato fights when you were younger?? Noo, I never would have guessed, living with Coleman and John and Andrew. My guess is Coleman started it all. ; ) Love you Coley-man! :)