Yeah, there's been a whole lot of NOTHING happening on this blog. That is because there has been a whole lot of everything else happening in real life, so I thought I'd show you all a little of what took up some pretty major chunks of my time over the summer.
This was our garden plot just after our final bit of planting. We garden at a community garden, which I LOVE.
A few weeks later. . .
More water, more sunshine. . .
And some of this in the mean time. . .
And this is what our garden looked like just prior to harvest.
For those of you who like to know what plants you're looking at. The pictures above are all taken from the top right corner of this chart.
We also grew onions in a raised bed on our parking strip, blueberries and herbs in our back yard, peas behind our shed, and lettuce in the flower beds at our house - because we're crazy like that.
All that time, effort, and water led to a lot of beautiful things like this. . .
and this. . .
and a lot of that lead to this. . .
which lead to a lot of this. . .
and some of this.
Other parts of it lead to time spent making this. . .
and huge messes in the kitchen. . .
Which eventually lead to beautiful things like this. . .
and one of my favorite photos of the entire year!
It is a TON of work to grow your own food and then process and preserve it, but I am always so happy I've done it when it's all over - and of course eating delicious fresh veggies all summer long is a pretty good perk too!
I'm still working on getting all our veggies properly stored for the winter, along with prepping winter beds and planting winter crops. Hopefully I'll be back soon with some of the furniture pieces I've finished recently, as well as other things that kept us busy over the summer.
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This year I stuck to the basics, as it turns out my family doesn't really love fancy chutneys and jams - maybe when the boys are older. Do you can? What's your favorite food to preserve?
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