What a blessing our little garden has been this year!

We are constantly out there piddling around in it and enjoy it very much.

We planted a lot of different things this year – including a cut flower section!

We also planted kohlrabi, carrots, radishes, kale, strawberries, three types of tomatoes, basil, chives, jalapeno peppers, bell peppers, golden beets, cucumbers, snap peas, marigolds and zucchini.

Here is the garden back at the beginning of July –

I took these photos just yesterday!

We have enjoyed everything we have harvested so much – ever since the first two strawberries became ripe at the beginning of July!

Tate and Eliza love to put on their muck boots first thing in the morning and run out and check the gardens.

I am so glad they are learning to love to grow things!

We also have four watermelon plants growing on our hill out back and are hopeful for a yummy harvest of those as well!

We have been fighting deer, bunnies and a huge invasion of Japanese beetles in our gardens this year, but we are NOT giving up!

We have lost several plants due to the deer and bunnies – even a whole zucchini plant.

I am hopeful we will still get enough zucchini to shred and put up in the freezer with our one plant left, – but if not, we can buy a case of zucchini from the produce stand at Addie’s work to fill our freezer with.

We are certainly thankful for all of the rain we have had this summer!

I think we have only watered the gardens four times now!

Looking forward to many more days of enjoying our harvest and taking care of our gardens.

It’s been a great summer so far!!