I love gardening!
We have flower gardens all around our yard, with many different themes; Butterfly Garden, Water Garden, Herb Garden, Vegetable Garden, Orchard, Berry Patch, Container Garden, and coming soon, The Fairy Garden! (my daughters have it all planned out).
Each year, we grow a vegetable garden and preserve much of our harvest to enjoy throughout the year. In the herb garden, we grow most of the herbs we use fresh and dry for use throughout the year.
Most years we try to add a new garden or expand or change an existing garden. Last year, we added a bridge to our pond garden and add to the vegetable and herb gardens. This year, we plan to start the Fairy Garden and build more bird feeders and bird houses to put in the gardens. Both of these will be fun for the kids to help with.
My kids help in all of the gardens. They help plan, plant, water, weed, and enjoy the benefits of each and every one of them.
Show your kids how much you love gardening, by enjoying it yourself!
I remember being with my dad in the garden — a Victory Garden — when I was small. It’s where I developed my taste for fruit right off the tree at the perfect stage of ripeness. I’ll never forget that Babcock tree that produced the most delicious peaches I’ve ever eaten. The irony is that now we finally have lots of space to garden and hardly any time and energy to fight the deer and rodents who want to eat almost everything we grow. I kept at it, but lost heart last year when the ground squirrels invaded and mowed down the tomato plants one after the other until they were all gone.
Hi Barbara, thank you for your comment! My memories of gardening with my mom and dad as a kid are some of my favorites. Fresh picked fruits and vegetables are the best! I hope my blog will help to renew your zest for gardening. I understand about the deer and rodents. We have a few around here. We are always looking for new solutions to defeat all the critters and keep them out of our gardens, without harming them. Maybe I will try to share some of our solutions soon.