Good Morning Everyone!
How was your weekend? Ours was just lovely! We stayed cozy at home, dreaming of comfort food and the warmth of spring.
I did a rough plan of our 2010 vegetable garden using this really great website: Gardener’s Supply Kitchen Garden Planner. We’re going to try for some leafy greens this year, which should work well with the amount of shade our backyard can get. Here’s a general idea of what we’re planning on growing:
- onions
- leeks, this will be our first year
- parsley
- mache, we haven’t grown this before but we’re really excited
- lettuce
- mesclun, I’m itching to get things going (I know, it’s only March and I live in zone 6-ish) so I started a tray of mesclun to grow in our living room window.
- beets
- swiss chard
- spinach
- tomatoes
- peppers
- eggplants, hey, a girl can dream
- “melon”, Darren would love to have fresh melon from our garden, I mean, who wouldn’t? But it’s just not practical here so I’ve asked him to choose something else that he can be excited about.
- peas
- basil
- cucumber
- squash
- rosemary
- dill – is it a bad idea to put dill right in the garden? Will it self seed and take over? Should we plant it in a pot?
I’m anxiously awaiting Seedy Saturday here in London so I can pick up some seeds and talk sunshine for an afternoon.
This past Saturday I visited the Western Fair Farmer’s Market to pick up this week’s fresh veggies and I came home with the hugest sweet potato that I’ve ever seen! 1818 grams to be exact. And yes, that’s a full size 10 inch dinner plate it’s sitting on. We’ve been cutting chunks off and making sweet potato fries – yum!
Our weekend was quite food-focused, which seems pretty typical for us. What’s your relationship with food? Love it? Cook it? Grow it? Sell it?
This will be our first spring/summer in our house, and I really want to try my hand at a little gardening. I buy a lot of fresh veggies and make a lot of salads so I would love to grow my own and have them fresh!
This year I’m hoping to buy a plot in a community garden. My little yard receives so little light that I can’t grow much, and what I do grow is often stolen by squirrels. Though I don’t know if a plot elsewhere would solve the squirrel problem! 🙂
This city has lots of squirrels, I wish you much good luck!