Vegetable Garden 2018

I finally got most of the garden planted!

We waited a little longer this year as we had such a weird Spring... Warm one day then really cold the next. The temperatures fluctuated a LOT. More so than normal for the Spring season.

What we are planting this year:

Tomatoes and peppers are a given! We always plant a ton of them each year. I personally am obsessed with fresh homegrown tomatoes... I just eat them all summer. I picked up a tomatillo plant as well... I'm just interested to see one grow! Peppers also grow well for us. Bell peppers mostly but this year we did add some hot salsa  peppers into the mix.

Cucumber. Marketmore and English varieties. We only tried growing them one year. They did just okay. But thinking back they weren't planted in the most suitable location as they were mainly shaded throughout the day and cucumbers love full sun. This year full sun it is.

Zucchini... We LOVE zucchini here at our house. We especially like adding zucchini to our baking. (I can make a mean chocolate zucchini loaf).

Eggplant. We eat a lot of stir fries in the summer and eggplant is just perfect for those.

What else... Peas. Watermelon. Muskmelon.

We are also starting a strawberry patch. Excited about that!

My dad is helping me by building some raised beds in our garden area. We're kind of going all out this year... There is so much space now that I think I'll head back over to the garden center next week.

2018 Update

It has been over 5 months since I've written here last. Now here I am again, feeling a rekindling of the desire to create and document... stuff.

This past winter has been good. It felt like it went by quite swiftly, although I'm sure others would argue with me over that claim. :)

And now it's spring... for me, a time of revival. I love to watch the trees come to life again, the flowers bloom, the grass grow green. Everything feels fresh and new once again. Plus, the warmth of the sun on your bare arms and being able to work in the garden... there's almost nothing I like better. 

This season and next I have nothing planned aside from working and enjoying my home life. Working as medical secretary at a nursing home isn't the most enjoyable thing for me, but nevertheless I like it well enough, and it is a good job. At home, gardening is on the top of my list when it comes to work AND enjoyment. I've grown to really love gardening over the past 2 years. This year I have some great plans for our family vegetable garden and I'm excited to see it come to fruition.

I don't really have much to update on about my life. Nothing out of the ordinary has happened since last year. My life has never been adventurous. All the same, I'm finding joy in the ordinary. I want to enjoy my life to the fullest and savour each day. You never know when everything will change. Change can come gradually or all at once. So enjoy each moment.

I've been thinking about different posts I should make on a regular basis (maybe even have a schedule of sorts). That would motivate me to write and seek out things to do. For sure I want to write about how my garden is coming along. I also want to try new recipes and share them here. Maybe make a monthly post about my favourite things of the month. And I want to write about what I've been reading in my Bible as well as what I've been learning at church. All the things! :)

Right now I really feel like life is beautiful. There are a lot of struggles but still.
Life is beautiful.