Square Foot Garden

We have busy the past few weeks getting our garden ready for this summer. Since we don't have a very large back yard, Nate and I have decided to use the square foot gardening (sfg) method. Thanks to Marne, Nate's sister, for introducing us to this method of gardening. So far we have 2 boxes ready and are working on a third. We have planted some green onions, chives, radishes, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, brussel sprouts, onions, and peas. I am excited to see the first seedlings pop up through the soil!

I have also planted quite a few starts so we won't have to buy the expensive starts at the store. We have several assorted tomato plants, cucumbers, assorted peppers, and assorted flowers. They are taking up about 1/3 of the kitchen table, so it's a good thing we are still a small family. I put them in the sun room on sunny days, but it has been quite cloudy and not warm enough out there lately. I will take pictures of our first year of sfg and post them. Hopefully it will be a prosperous year.

Oh, we also bought some fruit trees for the back yard. We may have gone a little overboard, but it was so hard to decide what kinds to get. We bought a peach, nectarine and apricot, and then variety trees of apple, plum, cherry, and pear (they have several different varieties of the same fruit grafted to one trunk). The variety trees have fruit that ripens throughout the summer, so we should have fresh fruit for much of the summer. We wanted to get them in ASAP so we could reap the benefits of them before moving since they take a few years before they produce any fruit. I love having fresh fruit and veggies right in our back yard. Thanks Mom and Dad for showing me how to grow a garden growing up.