Our Garden

We may live in the city on a quarter acre lot, but we have a garden!  We really do and it is actually a pretty good one this year thanks to all of the rain we had during the Spring and Summer.  I had been meaning to post these pictures for the past couple of weeks and kept forgetting.  Now apparantly we are under a hard freeze warning for tonight.  What??  It is only September!  Believe it or not, the day before yesterday it was in the mid 90's and tonight the low is expected to be in the mid 20's.  How's that for Minnesota nice?  Well, before our garden is no more, here are a few pictures. 

We grew corn for the very first time and I was really suprised that it actually grew!

If you look close you can see Quinn is about to throw a big handful of sand at Paige.  Uh-Oh!  That is the first thing he tries to do when he sees dirt...boys....

In this picture you can see the corn of course, but we also planted green beans along the fence (they never stood a chance, the rabbits ate them) and carrots (most of these seeds washed away in the first big storm the day we planted them).  This is Paige's garden, a small space on the front side of the real garden that is not fenced.  You can see on the fence how only 2 cucumber plants infested the whole wall!  This was our first year planting cucumbers as well.  I think next year we will plant just one.

This is the inside of the real garden, the tomato plants are huge!  We are looking forward to canning them this Fall, so hopefully we can keep them covered and warm enough tonight through the frost.  We also have lots of peppers, broccoli, cabbage, raspberries and strawberries.  Oh and herbs, TONS of them!  

In case you haven't had a garden before, even the smallest of gardens are a really great way to have the whole family involved in something.  The kids love helping plant, watching everything grow and produce food they can eat ..that is if they would actually eat vegetables.  But most of fun, picking everything.  It was a fun year for the garden, I can't wait to do it again next year!