Garden Time!

Happy Victoria Day, Canada! 

During the month of May I'm usually a single lady since my full-time working husband spends a lot of his free time planting on the farm. Not today! We slept in, lounged around on the deck in our PJ's and had breakfast, hit the beach for lunch and did some much needed yard work this afternoon. My husband has been working his buns off on our new vegetable garden over the last few weeks and it's coming just about done.  We moved here last April and decided to skip planting a garden until we knew exactly where we wanted it and how big to make it.  We quickly realized that our challenge with a new vegetable garden would be the wildlife. Rabbits and squirrels and deer, OH MY!  We put up a chicken wire fence in hopes that will deter them.  Time will tell. We are looking forward to yummy home grown veggies this summer like we used to enjoy at our old place (seen here). Our old garden was so big that it was almost unmanageable (That's what she said).  This time around we are going to do a garden that isn't so overwhelming.  The rhubarb plants were here already so we worked around those.  My husband and I decided on the following crops for this year; sweet corn, spinach, romaine lettuce, green beans, peas, carrots, potatoes, asparagus (which will take a few years to yield anything), red peppers, red onions and tomatoes. Everything except the tomatoes were purchased from a local family owned farm market.  The tomato plants were purchased from a local supplier, 'The Tomato Patch' who caries 30 different types of unique and rare heirloom and open pollinated tomato plants (check them out here). I can't wait to see how the crops turn out -- hopefully the rabbits, squirrels and deer go easy...



Garden is to the right, behind the shed



This was a tiny garden and my hubby tripled the size!