Bountiful Harvest!

It's getting closer and closer to being fall and that means its time to harvest the garden! We have done minor harvesting already but more and more things are getting ready so we did a little bit bigger harvest this afternoon. We grew lots of different kinds of tomatoes (cherry, grape, big boy, and beefsteak-the bigger variety are still mostly green), peppers, and cucumbers.

We also grew a bunch of herbs and spices in our pots. We grew basil, chocolate mint, parsley, and chives (in the first pot) as well as oregano, sage, and lemon balm (the other pot). They make a pretty good meat loaf!

It took us a lot of work to get the garden in. The original garden area was full of weeds and on a slope so it took a whole day working in the heat to level it out and get the ground all ready with the weeds pulled. Then we built a little retaining wall out of bricks that we found on the side of the house. We also found these little white fences in the garage and put those up around it. But this delicious home grown salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, mint, and lemon balm from our garden was well worth it!