The Garden

I thought today I would show you a few photos of my garden that I have been working in. This is what I grew over the winter in my hoop houses.

Here are some Brussel sprouts which are finally taking off. I have never seen the real plant before so this will be fun to watch the little sprouts grow.

Here is some cabbage. Since this photo we have eaten one of them for dinner. We have also eaten all the lettuce and spinach.

Here is another bed with Cilantro which is now getting ready to bolt because of warm weather. There is also Kale which we have been eating through the winter. Way in the back is just weeds. I will not let that happen again because they have a zillion roots and they were holding onto all my good soil as I pulled them out. Now that spot is ready to plant something good in it.

Here are five more beds which I have planted some seeds in and some are coming up. I will show them later.

Because we get our water from a well which is very precious I bought this rain barrel a few years ago to water the plants. It has come in pretty handy when the rain has been scarce and things are looking dry. It seems to rain just in time too when the rain barrel is getting low. I purchased this rain barrel from Whole Foods.

This is our newest rain barrel we bought from Lowes Hardware. It is made by Fiskars. It came with  a diverter kit. It is the black stuff attached to the gutter and rain barrel on the right. When the rain barrel is full the rain will go back down the gutter. The black barrel has the hose at top which lets out the excess water. I place the hose in different parts of the yard so the plants will get more of the excess water.

The only thing I don't like about this barrel is that it holds too much water below the spigot which won't get used unless I take the lid off and use a bucket. I will do this if I really need some water for my garden. You can see the spigot is much lower on the black barrel. The diverter kit is perfect for this area because there are no plants on this side of the garage.
It is good exercise carrying two watering cans up to the garden a couple times. Hopefully I won't have to do it too often. lol

With Passion,
Carrie P.