First Potatoes From the Vegetable Garden

Yukon Gold Potatoes

Our Yukon Gold Potatoes from the vegetable garden. This is our first attempt at growing potatoes and we're pleased with the result!

I made mashed potatoes from this batch and they were yummy!

Our Onions are Popping Up in the Vegetable Garden

The Onions we planted are coming up! Considering we've never done a vegetable garden before this is pretty cool.

Did I mention that I can't weed due to physical challenges, and hubs refuses to weed? So our garden is being left to nature and our crossed fingers!

Now if only we had a root cellar.... 

Yay for Chives!

The chives that hubs replanted for me are doing well in the new vegetable garden.

They'll come up every year and should spread nicely too. I don't use a lot of chives in my cooking but they do go nicely with eggs or baked potatoes with sour cream. Mmmmm...

Besides they look pretty and they smell good!

If you haven't planted chives, you might want to try. They're hardy, easy to grow and they survive even the harshest Canadian winter.

Sad Little Zucchini in the Vegetable Garden

This is the one and only zucchini plant that is growing in our vegetable garden.

I don't know why the rest aren't growing. Maybe the seeds were too old.

Yesterday hubs and I went and bought more zucchini seeds plus one plant and now they're in the garden. Fingers crossed.

We'll see how the new zucchini does. I'm looking forward to freezing it for winter zucchini bread!

Planting Tomatoes in the Vegetable Garden

Hubs is planting the one tomato plant we were able to buy.

You heard me.

We went out to purchase several tomato plants for our vegetable garden and to our dismay (and disbelief!) were told the store was sold out. Except for this patio plant which was not exactly what we wanted.

I mean c'mon... I know we were later than the traditional May 24th planting weekend but only by a week. Sheesh

Planting the Vegetable Garden

Planting Onions

Today we planted part of our vegetable garden. Hubby finished putting up chicken wire around the newly tilled land so that the pigs and chickens and guinea fowl could not get inside.

The new garden is about 25x30 feet and is close to the house. One area, defined by railroad ties, is our rhubarb patch. It's about 12x12. A second area about 12x18 is for zucchini.

Then we have a few rows each of spanish onions, cooking onions, green onions, garlic, red peppers, chives, mint and horseradish.

A final patch of tomatoes will complete the planting. Then we cross our fingers and hope!

Planting Mint

Most of the herbs we bought this year are planted in window boxes on our back deck but we wanted the mint and chives in the vegetable garden.

Putting in a Vegetable Garden

Started to dig a vegetable garden today. Got it dug. Now need a fence around it to keep the piggies out.

'Reen can see it from the back deck and the mudroom. She wants me to plant tomatoes, zucchini, garlic, two kinds of onion, bell peppers, and horseradish.

She can freeze the grated zucchini and make zucchini bread all winter. Yum yum! 

I tilled the soil to make the garden around the existing rhubarb patch so we hope it spreads now.

Pigs Help Out

Tilling a vegetable garden with the pigs