This will be our third summer in our new home, and each year we (er, correction: the “royal we”) put in a small veggie and herb garden into a bed that’s on the side of the house. The kids love the entire process — planting, watering, watching the growth, and then picking their own food from their own garden. Here’s how ours is looking so far.
We’ve got red peppers, cabbage, tomatoes, green onions, beans and all sorts of herbs on the go. Nothing better than fresh herbs on a summer meal!
Do you plant any herbs or vegetables in your yard? Which ones are your favourite?
There’s a canoe in my herb garden at the moment. I’ll keep you posted.
We have a yellow one hanging out on the other side of the house. I hope you get your herb garden!
I have no idea – this is the first time we are growing anything!
oops – that goes with the reply to my strawberries!
I’ll be interested to hear how it goes with the strawberries!
We just planted tomatoes and strawberries – looking forward to our first crop! Next year we may add in cucumbers and onions – I would like to be able to grow my ingredients for greek salad
Strawberries? Are they hard to grow? I would love fresh strawberries!
I would love to garden, but we are renting currently and we haven’t started planting things. I am super jealous!.
Ah, but you could easily have some potted plants with herbs just outside your door! Fresh herbs are the best part in my opinion.
I love growing zucchinni but they take over my garden and I always have to share bc I get way too much. But, they are good to shred and freeze
I never thought to freeze zucchini, that’s a great idea. We always end up with more tomatoes than we can eat.
My garden grows wild b/c I don’t love to garden – lol
Not my favourite thing either!
Besides, wild is beautiful too, right?
I didn’t plant yet. I am planning on planting peppers, cherry tomatoes and cucumbers
Cucumbers! I think we forgot cucumbers this year
Last year I commenced planting in the front of the house. HA! I have afternoon sun there and the tomatoes and cucumbers LOVED it up there. I planted ornamental flowers and edible herbs in between them, too, including rainbow swiss chard which we took young and ate raw in salads. This year I added celery (even though I hate celery but the guinea pig deserves tasty leaves to nibble on, too) and I’m still searching for a spot to grow squash. We grew the little ornamental pumpkin ones, the size of your hand, for Halloween and they were a hit (but took over everything, the speed at which they were growing).
A note on strawberries – we gave up. Squirrels and birds took most of them, no matter what we tried (hanging basket, under cover, etc). So now we just go pick those at a farm.
We have a fruit & vegetable garden as our backyard. There are the staples like tomatoes and cucumbers, raspberries and pears… there’s some squash varieties that I can’t name offhand and some truly red vibrant carrots (the seeds came from India I think…), which are much sweeter than their orange counterparts.
Our summer pasta sauces taste so much better with the home grown tomatoes!
I have a small container garden right now, lettuce, herbs and tomatoes. Next year I’m hoping to dig up all the dead grass beside the fence and put in an actual garden to share with my kids. Some of my favorite childhood memories are gardening with my mom and Grandma
I’ve purchased tomato plants and herbs but haven’t gotten them in the ground yet! Love the look of your flower beds.
I want to do this with my kids again. We had a small garden one summer and the kids loved it, but there just wasn’t enough sun. Hopefully our next home has the space.
On the deck I’ve got potatoes growing in a barrel (well really a well-drained garbage pail shh!), strawberries in a topsy-turvy, herbs in a container, cherry toms and a pepper in a container. Then in the yard I’ve got a shade bed with celery, radishes, lettuce, and peas, and the main bed has toms, beans, broccoli, carrots, and…well you see I started a cuke, pumpkin and zucchini but only 2 survived…and I don’t know which two so it’s a mystery for a bit longer lol. As for favorites, I love snipping fresh herbs. V’s partial to the cherry toms, and so far this year, the hanging strawberries *g*