in the garden, part 1

I'm working on putting together a Spring/early Summer homeschool unit on gardening for the kids, particularly growing your own food, composting, and the like to go along with our new favorite pastime. We are all having so much fun oohing and aahhing over the new plantlings. Three new raised beds are in and filled with herbs and veggies and best of all we have 5 new fruit trees. (fyi-Since the photo above we have installed soaker hoses, mulched the beds, and covered everything with bird netting thanks to The Urban Homestead.) We found a wonderful new-to-us local nursery with the most wonderful selection of fruit, nut, and flowering trees (pics below) and spent a small fortune on the  hope that one day we will be picking our own produce in the backyard.

 

 

 

We decided on mango, avocado, banana (lady fingers), sugar apple, and surinam cherry. There were mature banana and cherry trees on the property so we even got to taste them. Beautiful and delicious!

 

 

Stay tuned for part 2 back at the Cooper homestead....Doesn't this make is so much more exciting??

Comments

[Anna O'Reilly]

Wow! I"m excited for you. I'm trying to grow my own tomatoes, herbs, & flowers this summer.

Anna

[Darlene]

I just bought a book about a month ago called square foot gardening. I think you might like it. Your garden plots look a lot like the ones pictured in the book.
Once my shoulder gets better, I am looking forward to working in my flower garden. Too late for vegetables. :)