I just realized that I never posted pics of the completed (for now) vegetable garden! We've left some grass in the ground in the area we don't have plants for. I've read it's better to have something rather than nothing. Once my clover seeds arrive, they'll replace the grass. Here's the pics:
Does anyone else have a case of Summer-itis as badly as I do?! The humid, in-the-high-90's weather makes me sleepy and I have to work on my attitude which takes up more energy than it should. So I've been busying myself with things I enjoy, and things we enjoy doing as a family.
Our most recent project stems from a decision that we would like to become homesteaders (more on that later - it deserves it's own post!) We are starting small with a vegetable garden in our back yard. I'd like it to be as pretty as it is functional, and I'd like it to be a garden of joy! It's going to be a process, but this is the beginning of installing it:
I'd like to add an arbor, and make a path from the back door to the garden.
We are planting:
And the decorative part (that is also functional in attracting butterflies and bees for pollination) is:
We hope to provide for our family with this vegetable garden, and we hope to provide more than food. One can learn responsibility, patience and hard work with a vegetable garden (but, sssshhh - don't tell! They haven't noticed yet... )
