How does your garden grow?

When we moved here to Washington one of Ryan's biggest desires was to do our first ever garden. We figured this might just be our best chance yet with all the rain we get here. One big help along the way was that there was a garden club in our ward. In compliance with what seems to be the in-thing we did a square foot garden using Mel's mix (1/3 of each: compost, vermiculite, and peat moss). Since our yard isn't huge by any means we did our garden alongside our fence.

This has been a family project through and through, building the boxes, mixing the soil, planting, 10:30 pm slug hunts ending in slug death, watering, picking and eating.

So far we've harvested lettuce, broccoli, peas, carrots, cilantro, and strawberries. It's amazing how rewarding it is to do a garden. It really is true that produce really does taste better homegrown. The garden club wanted to do a garden tour of many different gardens so they came to ours. Apparently by the comments I got our garden was doing extremely well. They were asking, "What did you do?" and "How is everything growing so well?" I then told them that I believe the truth of it to be that ever since we began our garden Ryan has prayed over it and encouraged us to join in as well. I then heard, "Well, can you pray over mine too!"













We are still waiting on onions, corn, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, watermelon, and pumpkin. Hopefully we'll get to see all of them grow. I think I'm most excited about the tomatoes! Is there anything better than a delicious tomato? They are so hard to come by.