A Salad Fresh from Our Garden

Last evening I needed to make a salad for our dinner.  So I promptly went out to the backyard and got some fresh greens right from our garden!  It’s so refreshing being able to eat food you’ve grown yourself.  You know what’s been put on it (or not!), and from where the seeds came.  Do any of you guys have greens in your garden you’re enjoying?  Share some photos with us, we’d love to see them!

Cutting the micro-greens

Beet greens, arugula and micro-greens. A bounty!

The salad, before we added some ‘store-bought’ toppings. 🙂

Beets, Lettuce, Carrots, etc.

The cooler weather has arrived (ha!  Just as I say that, it’s 85 for the high today!), and the garden is growing really well.  It’s amazing watching the plants increase in size, and even more amazing eating a fresh salad made with lettuce from your very own backyard garden!  Lovely.  The lettuces have just taken off, the beets are getting quite large, and the carrot seedlings are starting to get a little bigger.   The cauliflower, kohlrabi, spinach and mustard greens are all doing fairly well, not growing super-fast as the beets and lettuces seem to be doing.

I need to build some kind of cold frames for our plants before the weather starts to freeze at night.  Any suggestions?

Hope your garden is growing super-well and your getting lots of produce from it!  Happy gardening!

Yummmmmmmmm! Lettuce.

Lettuce medley.

Micro greens

Beet patch. 🙂

Spinach (every child’s favorite vegetable, right!)

One of our four little cauliflower seedlings. Isn’t it cute?! 🙂

Carrot seedlings. Grow, carrots, grow!!

Fall Garden 2012: Seed Planting

I never posted this video over here after I uploaded it to Facebook.  Sorry guys!

It’s Time to Sow!

The seed packets and planning note book.

It’s that time of year again, when the weather starts to cool off, and the first frost date is approaching rapidly.  It’s time to plant seeds!  This year we wanted to plant lots of greens, and a few root vegetables.  So, after sorting through the packets of heirloom seeds we had, we decided on these:

• Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach

• Marvel of Four Seasons Lettuce

• Lettuce Mesculun Q’s Special Medley
• Onion Chives
• Mustard
• Kohlrabi
• Bull’s Blood Beets

We also would like to plant some parsnips and carrots, but haven’t been able to yet.  We may not even have enough room in our garden plot.  By the way, as most of you know, we are currently residing with our Grandmother, in Dallas.  Back this spring (in April, I believe), we installed a Back to Eden garden, and that is where we’re planting seeds this fall.

Anyway, we got the seeds planted on Tuesday morning, and Wednesday evening.  And, what would you know, it rained Thursday!  Thank the Lord for the free watering of our garden!

These arugula greens are still growing well!

A little lettuce seedling.

The beet, lettuce and spinach beds.

The okra we planted this spring did super well during the heat of the summer, even when we weren’t able to maintain the garden as we would have liked (due to our move).  And, they’re still producing like crazy!  We’re enjoying eating them fresh off the plants.

Okra, okra, okra…

Small, tender purple okra.

We will try to keep the blog updated as the seeds sprout and grow, and well into fall.  Hope you guys had a great summer,and enjoy the cool weather and colorful trees coming soon in Autumn!