My Secret Garden

This year, my green thumb has really prospered.  I have always been interested in gardening, my mom instilled that in me very young, but this year I really dug deep and challenged myself.  I have planted things that I have never planted before, and I started everything except my tomatoes and summer squash from seeds. The kids are really enjoying the garden too... mostly the raspberries and strawberries, but they are having fun learning and watching me in our garden.

We are growing:
Potato's (reds and russets)
Zucchini
Summer Squash
Red Onions
Scallions
Green Onions
Carrots
Broccoli
Radish
Beets
Lettuce
Kale
Brussel Sprouts
Purple and Green Bush Beans
Kentucky Pole Beans
15 Sunflowers (seeds for chickens)
50 Corn Stalks
Tomatoes
raspberries
Strawberries l
Blueberries
Peppers

This is my first year growing potato's and I had a situation with one of my batches and the stalks rotting out, but I was able to save most of that batch. 

I am having a lot of problem with my tomatoes.  My plants are huge and have a ton of buds on them but they all die and fall off.  I looked it up and apparently there are many things that cause this to happen, one of the most common is too much nitrogen in the soil... but I still have no idea what to do to save them.  Its a real shame too because they are LOADED... I hope I can figure it out and if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know!

I love to dig in the dirt with my bare hands and feel the ground with my feet.  There aren't any shoes or gloves in my garden... just dirt under my nails and kids that look like they ate dirt for breakfast!  I am still proud, that to this day, my kids don't know what a video game is :)



Kona likes to dig in the dirt too :)