Spring has sprung here in Florida. It’s been really fun to venture out each day and see what’s blooming and how the garden is progressing. We have a big mix of things that we’re trying to grow this year. Keeping in mind that we are new to this whole venture, only starting to try our hand at it late last summer. So, this is our first spring garden.
We started a lot of stuff as seeds over the winter, storing them all over inside, along window sills, on counters, and in the freezer. Slowly, we’ve moved much of it outside and a lot of it is really taking off!
A baby navel orange tree with blossoms
The blueberries aren’t ripe yet
This bed has a mish mash of stuff – strawberries, a teensy tiny baby sago palm tree, peppers, lantana, and the baby navel orange and rosemary.
We also have a variety of tomatoes and peppers, basil, a variety of baby citrus trees, artichokes, okra, beans, soybeans, spinach, peas, coffee, olive trees, a fig tree, and lots of wildflowers.
We’re doing this as a hobby, for fun, and the food we get from it is just an added bonus.
What are you growing this year?
Citrus trees and olive trees? That sounds wonderful! I’m just doing the basics — tomatoes, beans, herbs, peppers, carrots, etc. — but this will be my first garden. I admit I’ll be weighing and valuing my harvest just to see what my savings will be. You might do that too! I just posted about how gardening can save you money on my blog – PlinkPlink: Moms Talking about Money. Here’s the link:
Grow your vegetables, grow your savings?
http://www.plinkplink.com/home/2009/3/20/grow-your-vegetables-grow-your-savings.html
Oh, and such lovely pictures, especially the pea pod in cupped hands!
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You are going to love gardening, especially veggies. The nurturing of seedlings, seeing them progress into productive plants, worrying over them if they are ailing, reasearching possible troubles, finding that they all seem to just know what to do on their own if they have the right conditions, and then eating the result and possibly saving seed for next year – I warn you, it gets addictive (but in a very nice way)!
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Oh what beautiful photographs! I’m hoping to grow something for the first time this year!
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i could look at these pictures all day!
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My husband is the green thumb in our family…but these pictures make me want to attempt to start some kind of vegetable garden this year. We are in the midwest so some of the ones you have may be out of my league. Your pictures are beautiful!!!!
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You take such beautiful pictures of the things that surround you in life. I love it.
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How fun! I really am inspired to start a garden, but it’ll have to be next year. I certainly don’t have my act together enough to do it this year!
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Fun! We live by the woods and have way too many critters to have an outside vegetable garden. So i stick with flowers and they still eat some of those. I’d like to try strawberries in a pot, but I’m sure I’d forget to water them:-)
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I’m growing all kinds of stuff this year. Including 25 different kinds of heirloom tomatoes. Growing your own food is so much fun, not to mention healthy. It’s also great for the kids to see and understand where food comes from, you don’t want them growing up thinking food comes from the grocery store.
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Our last house backed up to a forested area where little critters like raccoons liked to hang out. They would eat a vegetable garden if given the chance! So I am very excited about having a yard I can fence and and plant a garden! By the time we buy the house and get the fences in, it will likely be too late. Maybe I will do a few things in pots to get started this year. But I would love to start growing more things in the next year, my son would love it!
Happy gardening!
xo
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It all looks great to me! Right about now, we have Spring in North Carolina. Camellias, dogwoods, cherries, daffodils and azaleas are in bloom!
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Harvested a whole wheel barrow of squash today myself. Tomatoes are almost ready. Planted over 140 types!
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