The prophet said to plant a garden

The prophet Spencer W. Kimball said, “We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasibly can on your own property. Berry bushes, grapevines, fruit trees-plant them if your climate is right for their growth. Grow vegetables and eat them from your own yard...Make your garden … neat and attractive as well as productive. If there are children in your home, involve them in the process with assigned responsibilities” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1976)

Check. Didn't happen last year because..we had Sarah..but I got it going this year. Complete with roma and cherry tomatoes, yellow squash, zuccinni, pumpkin, watermelon, cucumber, lettuce, green beans, some herbs and green peppers. The tomatoes are finally coming around and I'm so excited to make spaghetti sauce! My basil is going nuts and the squash, zuccinni, pumpkin and my 1 cucumber plant are taking over. I'm already planning on next year. I didn't like the lettuce variety.. maybe because I let it grow too much. We also have an abundance of earwigs this year and it's gross to pick up a lettuce and have 15 earwigs crawling around in it.

 

Sarah is not the best helper.. and gets very upset when I'm inside the garden behind the chicken wire.. she also doesn't like grass so much and will walk on anything else before she goes on the grass.

Our first green bean crop! So delicious. We've gotten lots of squash, zuccinni, some tomatoes so far, cucumbers, I gave lettuce away.. and green peppers so far. I'm not thinking the watermelon is going to produce and the pumpkins are starting to grow.

I'd love to have fruit trees.. but we did get some rasberry plants from a friend that will hopefully produce next year. My garden is definately not neat and attractive.. as my plants are sprawling all over the place but at least I did it. There's nothing better than eating something that you grew and tastes so fresh!