With the price of food the way it is, Reed and I decided that our garden was now even more important than ever.
Each year we put up loads of salsa, but this year we need to step it up a notch.
Or 50.
We have a good crop of tomato plants getting bigger each day. But, I have yet to find a pasta sauce or pizza sauce recipe that my family likes enough to can lots of quarts of it.
Anyone have a few great recipes to share?
We’ve got potatoes and onions on their way.
Green beans and a zillion types of peppers too.
Well, maybe not a whole zillion.
I plan on pureeing lots of squash for Parker. Eating organic is easy when you are your own farmer.
Playing in the dirt is one of my favorite things to do. And this year’s garden is rocking. We expect bumper crops all around.
My herb garden is filled with thyme, oregano, rosemary, chives, sage, just to name a few.
And I can’t forget to mention the flowers. Not just the ones in the gardens
But the ones on my front porch too.
I refused to pay sky high prices for already painted pots. A .99 cent bottle of spray paint transformed these already on hand containers beautifully.
I spent less than $20.00 on the spray paint and flowers for the herb garden and pots this year. Then we were so fortunate to have Reed’s friend, Steve, have left over golf course flowers which he gave to us.
And finally a view of the stream that runs through the back of our yard. It is simply delicious to be able to sit in our backyard on summer nights surrounded by our gardens and hearing the song of this brook as it rushes by.
WOW Tammy!!! You live on a beautiful piece of property! I would love to have a stream in the backyard! Wonderful job with the pots and flowers!
And oh my gosh, your garden is fabulous!!!! I have GOT to motivate my self to plant one! With five boys,we need it! Fresh garden fruits and veggies taste the best too! I love squash and canned tomatoes. I wish I had a homemade recipe to share with you! I love homemade salsa too! Now I am getting hungry, lol!
Love to all,
Amy
We are on our first tiny garden. Wow does yours look amazing! We were mostly focusing on salsa too with fun things like pumpkin and corn thrown in. I have serious garden envy, now. What a nice yard. Lots of ideas for next year!
I bought 4 lovely tomato plants at Wal*mart this spring. They are already dead. (sigh)
I love your beautiful gardens! We too started a garden, tiny in comparsion but our none the less. We have hungry deer, rabbits, ground hogs etc in our area so we had to put a 6′ fence around it.
your garden looks great!
Wow you have an awesome garden!!! We moved in too late to do too many veggies this year but we do have a tomato and pepper plant in some pots.
Ive never been a green thumb, but think next year I will try the garden think, we have a super small one this year, seems like after work I never have time to get in it!
Anyways youve given me incentive for next year:)
You definitely have a green thumb, my friend! Tammy, Tammy, how does your garden grow – it grows GREAT!!! Love your flowers and everything else too! I’d love a stream in my yard – I’ll have to settle for all our natural landscaping – we just can’t seem to get rid of it 😉
WOW!! Your gardens are gorgeous! I’m envious. I have beans, tomato’s, cantaloupe, pepper, cucumbers and cushaw but I also have grass and weeds!! Yours is amazing. How do you find the time to keep it so clean???
Beautiful Garden! I also find playing in the dirt to be calming. I’ll keep an eye out for yummy recipes.
Your gardens are amazing. Now I’m adding Farmer Tammy to your list of names.
Stream! You have a stream in your backyard? Now I am so missing our mountain home and creek.