First Garden

I harbor secret fantasies about being a farm girl. I want a big barn with horses and cows and chickens and pigs. Step one to accomplishing that goal was go get guinea pigs. Surely, I need practice taking daily care of animals and why not start small (plus it was hard enough to talk nick into those). Unfortunately, the guinea pigs were a failure and a week after Delia was born I sold them. Step two in accomplishing my countryfied living goals was to have a garden. THAT was a success.



I learned a LOT just from trial and error and I will do my garden differently next year, but we were VERY happy with our results.

The girls especially, well Lainey especially- Elie kinda lost interest after the strawberries were done- loved to go out to the garden and pick and eat the booty. I found Lainey outside more than once eating not quite ripe tomatoes.





I also learned some about "home made" vegetables- they don't all come out looking like they do at the store. For example, some carrots look like this...



I froze green beans, carrots, zucchini and corn and made batches and batches of spagetti sauce from our tomatoes and zucchini bread. I can't wait until next year!