My Families Garden and The Best Ways to Ensure A Fresh Harvest

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My husband and I began planting our garden late this year. With a littler of puppies that was welcomed on May 15th, and our own little toddler, our life was a bit nuts this summer. I wanted though to share what we are growing this year and how we learned from our last year's garden. 

Last year, we had a lot of rotten vegetables because of pests and wildlife- aka our chickens and rabbits. That is why we set a protective boundary this year for all our veggies. Our main garden used orange temporary fence and our small garden on the other side of our property used old wheels. 

For our orange temporary fence, we put stakes in the ground every few feet and then wrapped the temporary fence throughout the stakes. The temporary fence had holes in the fencing and we wrapped each stake with one of the holes. For the wheel, we just used an old wheel we had around and we put it around any of our smaller plants. If you do not have access to a wheel, funny enough scrap yards have tons of them. All our plants are growing really well right know!

This year we are growing: 

1. Cherry Tomatoes
2. Roma Tomatoes
3. Butternut Squash
4. Pumpkins
5. Chamomile
6. Basil
7. Sweet Corn 

I will give you more updates when our plants are really growing. The only plant we are currently harvesting and eating are the cherry tomatoes. We have added them to our salads, BLTs and our pesto pasta. 



XO, Lisa