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The garden is finally planted!

Well, all the herbs and veggies are in!  I don’t know that I’ve ever been this late in getting all the gardens started, but the weather just wasn’t cooperating.  This weekend was warm, breezy and sunny.  Perfect conditions to plant all of our veggies- I planted tons of heirloom tomatoes last year, and really enjoyed seeing all the colors come to life.  I planted the purple and yellow ones next to each other and they looked almost like flowers.  We go through tons of salsa, caprese salad, fried green tomatoes, and salads in the summer, so using lots of tomatoes is something that just comes naturally to our family.

I also changed the amount of zucchini and yellow squash plants.  Last year, when I bought all the plants for the garden, my eyes were bigger than the plants.  I really bought far too many for them to all be successful.  The zucchini and squash plants were the biggest example of this.  I didn’t leave enough room between plants for them to grow.  They also developed some sort of blight, which I have no idea if it was a result of too much rain, or something that I did!

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The garden is beginning to take shape!

I feel like we went directly from winter to summer.  One week it was 50 degrees, and the next week, it is 80 degrees!  I missed Spring, but am grateful winter is finally over.  My plants are getting acclimated to there new homes in the garden and we have started picking some of the herbs.

When were the kids were little, it was pretty easy to have them help with the weeding.  Their job was primarily to ‘look for worms’ -really I just wanted them to turn the earth over around the plants.  I then had to start paying them.  At first they were really cheap labor.  Basically whoever was the biggest helper, had a visit from the ‘yard gnome’ in the middle of the night.  Jamie was the one who was visited first – and he was shocked that the gnome was able to carry Lego package under his bed undetected.

Now, I have to say the girls really seem to relish their time in the garden working on the plants.  They really love being out there and watching everything grow and start to bear fruit.  One of our best discoveries last year was fried green tomatoes.  They were absolutely delicious and for weeks we feasted on them!!