Finally, a productive garden!

After four years of failed attempts at gardening (not counting the okra last year), our garden boxes are flourishing with food we can eat daily. The lettuce and spinach have given us salads almost every night. The snap peas add a nice touch to our salads as well and are a welcome side to Therese’s dinner. Tonight I harvested some of our swiss chard and that made a lovely little side dish (cooked with a quick 3 minute boil and an olive oil-lemon juice-garlic dressing. The carrots are looking nice and should come out soon I hope. We tried some of the chicory leaves that Adam got from the Roses. I found those salad leaves to be a little bitter, but Adam really just got them for the roots to add to his coffee.

Adam’s grape vines are fairing quite nicely as well as you can see in the back ground.

And Adam hops are quite tall. He made a new trellis for them that I think is quite better than last year’s.

I have a long way to go before I get this gardening hobby down, but praise God for his goodness in the wonderful weather and rain!