I Love That Story

I'll try not to bore you with too many more garden posts, but I did promise updated pictures, right?

Here's my corner of paradise. I know it's hard to see them but we've planted 4 fruit trees and been working tirelessly on weed control, composting, pruning, etc. This area of the yard is finally finished (well, for this season). I'm happy with all of the work we've put into it but I think it will look even better next year, assuming that the fruit trees actually survive. Here are a few up-close pictures. I won't show you everything, although I am tempted...

carrots

corn

sweet peas (our new favorite)

And a few surprises: here we have red leaf lettuce. I put all of our lettuce from the winter in the compost pile and apparently the conditions were right because there is tons of lettuce popping up all over the place.

Obviously I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing the fruits (or vegetables) of our labor, but one of my favorite things about having a vegetable garden is that the kids actually want to eat things out of it. Green nutritious things that they would never otherwise put in their mouth. I can't get Judy to touch a vegetable from the refrigerator but she'll eat them off the vine every time. And thanks to our winter garden, she tells me how much she loves broccoli or lettuce every time she sees it. Yeah, that is a big change.