The Gardening Club......

Well, not really, but i am thrilled to have my mother here who was my mentor and founded my desire for gardening.  She has a love of gardening from her father and now it seems that Eden has a love of gardening from me!  :-)  Edy is always eager to help plant and dig, and even weed from time to time.  It makes me happy to see her learning such an important and useful skill and to enjoy doing it at the same time.

This year we have much more land to work from and i no longer have to garden in plant pots on the porch.  We are lucky that the owners of the house we live in were also gardeners and pretty much already had a designated spot for a large garden which all we had to do was till and weed.

This year my goal is to can as much spaghetti sauce as possible for food storage and so i have 34 tomato plants, most of which are Romas that i grew from seed.  I also have i think 8 green pepper plants, and numerous cucumbers growing and butternut squash.  I also have a rhubarb plant that i love, but have never grown before, but it will be 2 or 3 years before i will most likely be able to harvest that.  In addition to our vegetables we have a variety of herbs growing.  We have basil (my favorite), parsley, oregano, greek oregano, dill ( although it's not doing too well - gardening tips welcome on that one), mint, blackberry mint, chocolate mint, and......i think that's it.  :-)

Here's for happy harvesting!

Here's what they look like now, less than 2 months later: