Growing Stuff

So our garden is planted!! Price and I have made it a yearly tradition to plant a garden this time of year! (Well, this is only our second year to do it but… We plan to keep it up!)

We learned a LOT last year about what we liked growing (like herbs and tomatoes), what we did not love (like okra and carrots…), and how to space plan better so picking ripe goods was a little easier.

I’m pumped about our array of goodies this year!

I must say… I’m most excited about the strawberries! I hope we don’t kill them! 🙂 And having fresh tomatoes around all the time was a major plus last year. I’m looking forward to those too!

I’m also pretty pumped about Lemon Mint… I have no idea what this stuff is, but if it’s halfway as good as lemon OR mint, then I think we’re in for a real treat. I’ll keep y’all posted on uses for this stuff once I figure out exactly what it is…

Last year, we quickly learned that we had to fence off the garden because of our curious little beagles… They are none too happy about this fence… Dover, our boy beag, inspected the perimeter and decided to show us how he felt about this “thing” that’s keeping him from digging sprees…

“I’ll show them,” he’s thinking…

Anyway…

Another thing we learned last year is that cilantro (one of my FAVORITES!) is very picky. It doesn’t like too much sun or too much heat. Because of that, I put it in a pot and put it on our back deck which only gets sun about half the day. When it gets super hot, I might move it inside. I just hope it makes it longer than a month this year!

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Do any of y’all have gardens? Do you love them?! What’s your favorite thing to grow!? I cannot tell you how excited I am about having fresh, homegrown produce right there in my backyard in the near future!! 🙂