Vegetable Garden Planting Time
I start getting exciting around March for vegetable garden planting time. I love fresh vegetables and as soon as the nights start staying warm, it’s time to get it ready. We only have a small raised bed garden but we have fun planting our “crops”, watching them grow and waiting to harvest them. This is a picture of our garden in May 2017, only two months after we planted it.
We purchased a small gas rototiller this year and it did an amazing job on tilling the soil. During the winter, the weeds took over the tiny garden but the tiller made it an easy task to remove them and we now have beautiful soil ready to plant.
Our vegetables consist of summer squash, eggplant, peppers, cucumbers and lettuce. Lia says this plant looks healthy so we added that to the cart. We don’t have good luck with tomatoes but I’m trying again with a patio tomato in a pot. We shall see if we can pick a tomato before the worm gets it! I like to take weekly photos of the plants so I can see how well they are growing. We usually have enough squash, peppers and eggplant to freeze and last until mid winter.
We started planting last week and after getting a few more plants Sunday, we are just about done. Lia was checking everything out and gave the final approval when all the planting was done.
The lettuce is growing great already, in just a week’s time it has doubled in size! We should be able to pick some for a salad in a few weeks! Stay tuned for updates on my vegetable garden. As a side note, I started writing this blog on Sunday April 14th which happens to be National Gardening Day!
What a lovely garden. I would love to grow vegetables, but in Florida it’s too much work through the heat of Summer. And we have an army of squirrels who would love nothing more than to eat our crops. I grow flowers—roses, hibiscus, geraniums, dahlias, camellias and azaleas. The little squirrels eat the buds if I’m not watching. I look forward to watching your garden grow.
I know what you mean about the heat Debi, even in SC the garden is mostly done by June or July. But I so enjoy watching the vegetables grown, it brings back memories when I was younger and I helped my dad with our big garden!
I just cleaned out my herb garden (OK. I’ve been growing tomatoes over the winter) so it would bring the first signs of spring to my Seder table.
Nothing better than a fresh tomato Roy! I should try growing them throughout the winter!
So glad Lia was able to give her approval! 😉 What a lovely garden. My grandmother had a backyard garden and those were the best collard greens I ever tasted in my life!! I, on the other hand, cannot keep plants alive. Oh, well.
You know we always need Lia’s approval Jeanine! LOL I can’t wait for her to help pick the vegetables! I’ve never grown collards and we’re in the south!
You have a nice blog with beautiful pictures, too.
Thanks Danjay, I love adding pictures to my blogs. I think pictures add so much more interest. Thanks for visiting.
We are working on ours too, this is our first year trying vegetable gardening in a raised bed (the last time we did any vegetable gardening was years ago in a corner of our garden).. and hoping it will be as wonderful as yours looks
I will have photos up on my blog sometime soon
Can’t wait to see your garden Vidya! I love fresh vegetables and looking forward to freezing some for the winter.