Thanks to the days and days of rain in NJ, it grows quite well, thank you!
We’ve got a ton of different things growing this year: chamomile,
blueberries! I won a gift card a while back from gardenpunks for an online plant shop. With it, I got this awesome blueberry bush, which is already producing fruit! It’s just a tiny baby bush, so I can’t wait to see what it does next year!
Our onions were one of the first things ready to pick and use. We’ve picked 13 pounds of onions so far! They are now hiding in the closet of my art room, tied in panty hose to dry out (those we didn’t find a way to use already!).
Because we don’t have much usable yard (the bulk of our yard is on a slope), we do square foot gardening. Here is what one of our boxes looks like:
Tomatoes in the back, broccoli, and pots and pots of herbs surrounding it. We’ve got tons of broccoli just about ready to pick! What we don’t eat immediately, we will blanch and freeze for later.
One of my favorite things every year are all the herbs in the garden! Nothing is better than being able to go pick fresh things for your meals! Dill, cilantro, oregano, parsley, mint, thyme, rosemary and darn near anything else you could need!
And then there is the lavender. Oh, how I love lavender!
A new favorite to the garden this year is this:
Cucumbers! This plant went hog wild! We’ve picked our first cuke and had it in homemade sushi rolls just last night! Yum! There are tons of cukes in all stages on this great plant!
We’ve also got peppers! Jalapenos, poblanos and bell peppers!
They are still rather small. I can’t wait to have everything ready to pick and make some killer canned goodies!!
So that is what’s growing in our garden this year! It’s amazing what you can fit into 4 square-foot gardens!
(If you want to learn more about square foot gardening, this is the place to go!)
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love your garden – great results so far – how fun!!! this year my hunnie only planted peppers – I just was not up to helping with anything but we make our own hot sauce and hot pepper oil and such–but I love your garden!!!
Your garden is doing so well! Mine is dissolving in all the rain.
I love your photos.Your garden looks awesome!My results are up and down. The abundance of rain and weather has given me mixed results. I don't know if you knew I have a garden blog. I am doing moon gardening this year. I have a link on my side bar if you want to see it.
Wow! Your garden has so much in it. I'm glad the rain helped you. It's ruined some people's plants this year.
Yum! Your garden looks great! My garden is just now starting to produce – onions, cukes and cabbage. I don't have any chamomile this year and I miss it – I love that apple blossom smell it has.
Your garden looks great. i have a garden up front but when I was pregnant last year, it got out of control. Now I'm having a hard time getting all the weeds and cover out of it. any tips?
Oh how beautiful! I hope my garden recovers from all this rain and cloud cover. And you know … you can make a verrrrry nice ale with that chamomile!
our garden is 45'x65' we planted potatos,onions,beets,parsnips, turnips, green beans, several kinds of peppers, tomatos, yellow squash, cukes, watermelon, orange and white pumpkins, bird house gourds, corn, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, chard, brocolli and carrots. I have a seperate herb garden with loveage, dill, chamomile,lavender, parsley, chives, oregano, basil,3 kinds of mint, catnip, wormwood, stevia, garlic,yarrow and mugwort. I freeze, can or dry everything i get my hands on!! lol
Your garden looks amazing. Congrats. I have a brown thumb so I am lucky that my herbs are hanging on for dear life.
It's so lush! Beautiful. It makes me crave the warmer weather. I'm itching to get into my garden, but it's enjoying its winter sleep right now. But in the mean time I can drool over your stunning pic! Fab job you've done there.
I'm so jealous of your tomatoes. Im here in NJ with you and my plant has flowers but no fruit. I think I bought it too late in the season.BTW your garden is wonderful. BlessingsMama Kelly2witches.com
Nicely done. I tried broccoli last year and the bugs were all over it. How do you control them??? And does the lavender smell good just growing there or do you pick it and do something with it? I hope you have a great 4th of July too!
it all looks so yummy!! We love Sunday morning broccoli and cheese omelets, the fresh broccoli from the garden is so tasty!
great pics, it looks great! I LOVE growing cukes!!
What? No snap peas? Just kidding! What a lovely haul! And just think of all of the extra oxygen floating round your home!
I love your pictures!!! Very crisp. What kind of camera did you use?
I love lavender too! Your garden looks absolutely wonderful, Kris! So full of energy and a great job!nature is the best!
)Kisses from us.
Your garden is just gorgeous! I'm so jealous. I live in SE Colorado, and while I'm surrounded by farm fields my land is so dry and difficult to grow on that I've nearly given up! I'd really like to have a garden, but I think I'll need to pay to have some good dirt flown in or something lol! Beautiful pictures, thank you so much for sharing your bountiful harvest with your readers! You are an inspiration…I think I'll try some herbs after all. I've been really aching to grow herbs for incense and ritual so I don't have to buy them and wonder how they were grown.
Your garden looks amazing! I'm making an effort with herbs right now. I'm absolutely in love with them, but was having the hardest time growing them for a while. Fingers crossed!