The Garden

Dan's on our HOA Board (his term ends in Nov and this will probably be his last year) and is heading up a new project for the neighborhood, a community garden.  I don't have pictures but he is really enjoying it.
Our personal garden is doing really well.  We had an especially hard winter here that last longer than usual.  A couple of weeks after we planted in April we had a frost come through! Which is pretty of unheard of in April in North Carolina.  Our garden did survive but there was some set backs.  Last year we were getting produce from our garden in April.  This year we just barely started getting produce 2 weeks back. Here's some pictures are it's progressed:

The garden in the middle of April.  This was taken either right before or after the freeze.

Little lettuce

Potatoes.

Strawberries.

Lots of blossoms.

Wheat.  Dan's doing a test batch of wheat.

Best little helper!

Dan cultivating the garden.

Potatoes

Cucumbers

Tomatoes

Corn and peas

Lettuce and bush beans

This was taken towards the beginning of May.

Strawberries!!  Lots of them!

Blueberries

Blackberries

The garden today.

Off to the left you will see where we've started harvesting lettuce.  It should grow back and we'll get a second harvest before they bolt.

The snow peas and corn are doing great.  Our bush beans had a rough time with the freeze but are getting stronger.

Tomatoes that are getting bigger.  They were also stunted with the freeze.

Cucumbers.

Red bell pepper plants.  We found a store that was selling a six pack of seedlings and bought them.  I'm excited for the red bells!

Crazy potatoes and sunflowers.  One of the sunflowers is already 2 feet tall.

Strawberries.  We had to put some wiring and netting to keep out birds and bunnies.  We get an average of 12-16 strawberries per day.

The blueberries will probably be ready to start harvesting in the next month.

Our blackberries will also be ready next month.

I've been using our strawberries to fix my smoothie craving!

I've also been making our own yogurt.  I was able to use strawberries from our garden to make the strawberry yogurt and will soon be able to use our blueberries when I make the next batch of yogurt! We strained this batch to make it thick, cutting our production down from 4 quarts to 3 quartz but we do like the thicker consistency.  I'll do a post on making homemade yogurt when I make our next batch.  You won't believe how easy it it!! All you need is a gallon of milk, a crock pot and small amount of plain yogurt as a starter.