These are some garden pics from last summer I didn’t post. Click to see big, Enjoy! The first of the cantaloupe to ripen. Though none were bigger than this they were all very sweet! I didn’t break up the ground far down enough so I ended up with lots of short carrots. Quite a few [...]

Ok so I tried to drag summer out as long as possible. I actually wasn’t going to turn my garden until the first weekend in November, but we had snow of a sorts yesterday and when I picked my veggies some had ice on them. It is time. Here are my last tomatoes, I picked [...]

Click on the pics to see them big Corn plant, early-June. Check out the big Xtra bucket! That stuff was cheap I almost want to use it again ha ha ha. But now I am a die-hard 7th Generation convert. I sowed these from pinto beans I got at the grocery store!! They are growing [...]

I have pea pods! and my mint plant has spawned 3 baby plants! I took one off and put it in a container on my balcony. I hope that mint takes over the whole patch on the side of the garage where it’s at. It’s just exciting times around my yard! See more progress on: [...]

I have pods on my green bean plants now. This is so exciting! I took some pics with my phone but my network is not letting me send them to my email, aaarrrgh. I have got to get a digital camera, I still haven’t replaced Brian’s that I broke a while back. I have been [...]

My husband’s cousin’s wife gave me a cutting from this mint plant they had growing around their farm (they bought an old amish farm that had a lot of good stuff growing on the land). I planted it far away from my garden on the side of the garage, because mint plants grow like weeds, [...]

You might remember this pic from when I was double-digging my yard in April: My in-ground garden in May 2006 with sprouts from my newspaper peat pots transplanted, before I added a border. The container garden is up on the balcony, pics coming soon! We found some old roof tiles at the back of our [...]

So far in June I have had tea from my mint plant, lettuce in a salad, basil and parsley in pasta home-made pasta sauce, and some spinach from my garden with noodles and light seasoning. yum! Tonight we had some green beans and peas from the garden lightly steamed and mixed in black beans and [...]

These pics are from about a week ago, I have the ground all cleared up now and some of the sprouts transplanted. This is when we got started on clearing the ground for the garden! I cleared about 5 more feet length-wise and cleared a big bush on the side of the house. I’m going [...]

I’m just so excited! I will transfer quite a few of these next weekend into the ground or into a container up on the balcony. Newspaper peat pots on the front porch, these are broccoli, carrots, beets, lettuce, cucumber, cantaloupe, corn, green beans. Click/select to see big: In the flower pots are tomato and lavendar, [...]

We got going on the garden today! Iyende, Scott, and Todd went with me to pick out the seeds and potting soil. Then when we came home the boys made the little newspaper pots for our indoor seedlings. Today we did Green Beans, Collard Greens, Carrots, Beefsteak Tomatoes, Broccoli, and Basil. Next week we’ll do [...]

Info on growing a 3 sisters garden: http://www.birdclan.org/threesisters.htm http://www.cas.sc.edu/anth/gardening/ancientgardening.htm#TheThreeSisters http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/teach/2003045238014436.html http://www.nativetech.org/cornhusk/threesisters.html http://www.pathtofreedom.com/pathproject/gardening/threesisters.shtml http://www.reneesgarden.com/articles/3sisters.html http://www.imrisk.com/threesisters/threesisters.htm See more progress on: grow my own vegetables This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Family Footprint!

In the ground I am doing a 3 Sisters garden (corn, beans, and squash) and everything else I am growing in 5-10 gallon containers or bigger on my balcony. This is because we have a lot of deer and other assorted fauna coming in and out of the yard and they will eat up all [...]