mid-July garden

Not long after we moved in I convinced Dan to help me build two additional raised beds for the garden.I desperately threw seeds into the garden to see if we could pull off having a garden at our new home the first year. After several terrible spring storms things were looking desperate. I ended up adding some starter plants and things have turned out really nicely.

By May, the garden looked like this and we were getting beautiful micro-green salads.

Now, in mid-July, we have a really beautiful and productive garden.

I am growing beets for the first time - they are beautiful! (Yes, Mom, me and beets- who knew?)

Sawyer was dismayed that the cabbage moths ate all our broccoli the week before we were going to harvest. Since then he has been a bit worried about the "bad bugs that eat the garden" so we spend a lot of time talking about all the good bugs, like spiders and lady bugs that help us out.

He is very proud of our garden. And so am I.