It all starts with compost.

We save our non-meat food scraps in a little container
Next is a place to plant.

Senpai is extremely proud of these raised garden beds that he made out of scrap wood that had been accumulating from all of our construction projects. I don't blame him.
This is what they started as:

Add some plants, lots of dirt, and compost, and now they look like this!

There's another garden on the side of our house.

All together, we're growing herbs, onions, tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, strawberries, raspberries, and lettuces.
I'm so excited for our crops to grow! Since we're getting so much better at growing food, I'm starting to get more comfortable with the idea of growing flowers, too. I used to think I had a black thumb, but to my surprise, I have successfully kept a few plants alive for awhile. I figured it was time to add more.
Remember the tulip bulbs I planted on Halloween? Look at them now!

And I love my lilac bush.

R likes it, too.
We have flower boxes with pansies in them, as well, but I haven't taken a good picture of them yet.
Well, there you have it. We like to grow stuff. I hope you get the gardening bug, too. Happy harvesting!

3 comments:
Composting is awesome and your raised beds are cracking me up, I love them! :)
I am green with envy over your lovely big garden! We've started composting here as well. It's a great way to work with the kids in making them more environmentally aware isn't it? Hope you have a lovely weekend and thank you so much for stopping by my blog x
yay...Awesome :)
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