Veggies! Veggies! Veggies!

I think the first thing Nathan said to me when we bought our house was, "I want to plant a vegetable garden." Noah didn't let him forget that statement either, constantly reminding him, "Dadda, we still need to plan and plant our vegetable garden, don't we?!" And since we have 2 little boys who love being in the garden and "helping out" it was a goal we wanted to realise sooner rather than later.

So with the some inspiration from this pin on Pinterest, we decided we should utilise the "garden bed" on the eastern side of the house, outside the laundry. It has the benefits of being just outside the laundry so its convenient to maintain, but its a bit of a dead area in the backyard. It also gets a good amount of sun, but not too much. This was the drab looking site we picked for our veggie patch.

Over the course of a few weekends, even a little planting on Christmas Day, Nathan and the boys built a garden bed and planted our veggies. It took a lot of reminding to get Beau to keep the dirt in the garden bed but all-in-all the boys were great little Bob-the-Builders/Don Burkes.

So far the veggie patch has two types of beans, two types of tomatoes, corn, carrots, blueberries, basil, jalapeno chillies and shallots planted. We have already been able to pick and eat some of the blueberries! Delicious! And we have our first tomato growing! The carrots are constantly being "checked" by Beau, so lets hope they survive and we are so thankful the veggies all faired very well during Tuesday scorching 42C day!

The boys seem to be enthusiastic about watering the veggies, and especially about eating the blueberries! We can't wait to be harvesting more veggies from our patch soon! Maybe our next batch of tomato relish will be from our garden!

Next stop collecting our own eggs...maybe next year.