The gardening gene seems to be in my blood. Everyone in my family has a deep love of gardening. My grandparents were avid gardeners and spent hours upon hours in their garden. You could always find them there when you went for a visit. My children’s favorite thing to do during their visits to their great grandparent’s house was to water their garden and even had their own watering cans. My mother has always had a rather green thumb and since I was a child has spent a lot of time in the garden. My brothers both work for Landscape companies and work with plants on a daily basis. Then there is me. I wasn’t blessed with the family’s “green thumb” but rather was cursed with a “black thumb”.  I really haven’t had a lot of luck with gardening and haven’t really spent much time gardening because of it. I was talking to my dad the other day and we concluded that I must get the black thumb from him. Well this year I plan on changing that black thumb into a green one. One week ago we planted our urban vegetable garden in our backyard. We made some raised beds, had a truck of good soil delivered {boy there was a lot !}, then planted the plants and seeds I had purchased at a local nursery a couple of weeks ago. I am excited about embarking on this little adventure of growing our own food, as well as enjoying eating it! I am doing this for my children so they can see where their food comes from and how things grow. My lil guy isn’t the best eater, so I am hoping this helps encourage him in trying some new delicious foods that he helped grow. I think I am going to have to add a couple more planters because the three we made are already overflowing with all sorts of delicious goodies. There are a few more things I didn’t get planted that I would like to so having a little more room will be nice. We will be working on that in the coming weeks. For now though I will have fun watching what we have already planted grow. Here are a few pictures I took this evening of the garden’s progress so far. It is exciting to be able to pick and eat some of the strawberries that took off in the past week since we planted them. One benefit of buying plants rather than starting from seeds. Boy are they delish!

Until next time!

Veggie gardens seem to be all the rage this year… you may want to considering planting one of your own. It doesn’t need to be elaborate it can be even be planted in containers on a patio. There are all sorts of options when it comes to the urban vegetable garden. Experiment and have fun!

xxkathryn