Does any one even read this? No matter, I enjoy looking back on this very public journal and seeing how much the kids have grown, and how much I've learned after each gardening season. Well this year, 2012, marks the beginning of Garden #5 for me. Our garden looks very different than when we first moved in!
The biggest change will be the young ones running around it, through it, picking and eating from it; my boys. I now have THREE! They are so big, and littlest son is about to turn 2. Wasn't it just yesterday I was announcing that I was pregnant with him? But time marches on.
Another change is that the strawberry bed did not do well for me last summer. WAH! I love strawberries and so do the kids! I'm not quite sure what went wrong, but I think a late frost had something to do with how poorly the berries were. We also did a square foot garden combined with a regular row garden and truth be told, I liked having both styles there! There were pros and cons to each. Additionally, I hope to not only have a functional garden, but a beautiful one as well. Will I be able to make it pretty? I hope so!
This year will also be the year of the trellis. I am hopeful to have a trellis built for the many pumpkins, cucumbers, squash and beans that we'll plant. We've even got a gourd that looks like a snake as it grows! Cool huh? The kids and I bought seeds a few weeks ago and this week we'll start them to get the plants growing. I'm also planning on a heritage garden, where I will plant vegetables that represent my husband's German background as well as my Puerto Rican ancestry. So hopefully the plants I grow for this purpose will suit me well for various ethnic dishes that our German-Rican household can enjoy.
I'll get pictures up soon and will hopefully keep regular updates on this years bounty. Meanwhile, here are how my kiddie sprouts are growing.
