Giving Gardening a Second Try

Last year Ross and I put in a raised 4'x4' garden. Neither of us has gardended before, so it was a first for both of us. We planted cucumbers, peppers, green beans, strawberries, and a raspberry plant. As you can read from this Garden Update Post, we didn't do that great of a job on our garden last year! Unfortunately, we did not harvest anything from the garden. This year we decided to start a little earlier and give the garden a little more TLC than the previous year.

In March we planted lettuce and potatoes and noticed that our raspberry and strawberry plants from last year seemed to be coming back to life again. Here's where we're at now: 

The raspberry plant has really taken off, although we don't have any raspberries yet. We've done a little research and have found that we have a plant that will produce later this summer, or it might take another year before producing.

The strawberry plant has spread a bit. We have a few blooms that need to ripen a little more before eating.

Our lettuce did great! It was so much fun to watch it grow from a little seed into lettuce in my salad! We will definitely be planting lettuce next year!

Our potatoes did great, too! We planted new potatoes and have enjoyed eating them.

Potatoes before.

Potatoes after....yummy!