Gardens

  Our garden did awesome this year (yes this post is a bit out of order but just go with it lol) We put alot of elbow grease into raised boxes, using space wisely, building a compost box, making vegetable pot gardens and making transfer plant boxes. And it payed off nicely.
  We rotated our beds and managed to have vegetables growing the whole season. Enough vegetables to share with our neighbor and our family. We planted 29 types of tomatoes, 7 types of regular peppers, 10 types of HOT peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, three types of loose lettuce, cucumbers, strawberries, gourds, pumpkins (best ones come from the wild vines from our compost box lol) three types of green beans, collard greens, greek oregano, watermelons, beets, turnips etc. I did not get enough tomatoes to make pico de gallo,salsa or juice but that was only because one curly headed 4 yr old stripped the vines constantly! She ate at least one tomato a night every night of the summer lol We did a bushel crop on broccoli and have it in the freezer for this winter. Our purple cabbage froze up nicely for soup etc this winter.
  We planted corn at the edging of our vegetable pot ledge so when we watered the top layer it watered the bottom (due to the heat/drought this summer). When we watered the compost it also watered pumpkin vines and Delia  flowers. It flowed pretty well. I think I planted the garlic in the wrong sign as it just did not do well.
  Steve teases me about my "cult" book (farmer's almanac) but he sure referenced it alot this summer lol It works most the time and we've always used it....from weaning Kaya to when we plant etc. But I think I misread the one moon sign and that made the garlic not grow well.
   People tease me about how much gardening, composting (we use the dirt it makes to resoil beds etc) etc we do but it's a great stress reducer, you know where your produce comes from and it teaches Kaya a connection to the dirt under her feet. We are by no means as sustenance as we'd like to be but we are working on it. We grew our own veggies this summer, we watch what kind of bread we buy or we bake it, we buy a cow from our cousin's 4h projects so our meat is fresh and we know how/where it was raised etc
  We are both pretty big on environment things and we respect nature and I want that instilled in Kaya. I want her to know that hard work and caring for something grows juicy tomatoes. That the mulched leaves and egg shells can go in the compost instead of rotting away at a landfill. We recycle and we try to be kind to the environment.