I have planted a vegetable garden. It is meager and laughably small (like our food storage), but it's a start. I have no idea what it takes to grow a garden in Texas, but cucumbers, zucchini, and tomatoes seemed like a very safe bet.
Basically, my garden will feed us for a week - if that!
I've been thinking there's not much we can do, until Lisa came across the blog for some family in Las Vegas. They have used vegetables to landscape their backyard and it is amazing. They also must be the most organized people in the world - not just for being able to plan, plant and harvest all this food, but for then creating such a detailed blog to tell me how they did it!
I got so excited reading her blog! I've got all kinds of ideas for how to improve the soil, what to plant, how to landscape it. There's just one thing missing - how to keep my kids from pulling out the seedlings or picking all the vegetables before they're ripe.
We went home to CA not too long ago and Sophie and Sam picked all the fruit in one afternoon. Reminded Lisa of the time she was about 3 years old and picked all the carrots from the family garden and put them in the kiddie pool, proudly telling her mother that she had made carrot soup!
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I think you should start with the artichoke plants and not such boring things as tomatoes and cucumbers!
Last week Lindsey planted sage, tomatoes, cilantro, basil, chives and parsley - all seedlings she started at Activity Day. This morning we were talking about her garden and she said, "Oh no- Sophie and Sam are coming." :-)
I have no worries.
I love Lindsey's reaction!
Figure it out for me this year and we will plant together next summer! (If all goes well.) I need something to look forward to during a TX summer.
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