Whats In Your Garden?

Well the time has come for me to plan out our garden! YAY! This is easily one of my favorite things to do. I love to sit with a nice cup of tea and plan and hope PRAY that everything grows as planned. So I thought I would share it with you and maybe get some ideas for our garden from all of you sweet people.

We have put in a tiny garden for the past few years and honestly, it sucked. I think there were a few things that played a role in our unsuccessful gardens. 1) Not enough sunlight 2) crappy seeds and 3) bugs. This year we are going at this with a new approach and hoping for the best.

We are planning to put in raised bed garden. Has anyone ever done one before? In the past we had just tilled a plot of land for our veggies but this time we would like to step up our garden game. This is a few of the Pinterest ideas I found that I liked.

                      I love the chicken wire material around the top to keep any pests away ;)

               
                    This is very simple yet very doable. Probably what I am leaning towards most.

I like the idea behind the U shaped boxes. It makes for much easier access when weeding the garden. What do you think?

When I plan out my garden I always make a list of what we want and then I plot it out by what plants are compatible and which are not.

Here is some of what we plan to plant:

• beans
• cucumbers
• tomatoes
• peppers
• lettuce
• squash
• radish
• turnip
• onion

Another thing we are excited to do this year is start our seeds in doors. We have been blessed with a beautiful sun room that will be perfect for all our seed babies.This will be a great educational idea to do with your kids at home. I have been saving toilet paper rolls to plant seeds in. (stay tuned for that one) Here is a list of when seeds should be started indoors

I will post as soon as we start our seeds and keep you updated on how that is going.  Let me know any tips you have for starting our raised bed gardens. I am so excited to start this out and I hope for a better return then we have had in the past. I am hoping to get into a schedule of posting more regularly but for now, check back next week for a new post :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Brianna

Welcome

Welcome!!!


 Blogging has always been something that has interested me. While I don't consider myself a "good" writer, I do think that this will be a good way to document little special moments of our family to be able to look back at in a few years time.

Over the past year or so, Adam (my fiance) and I, have discussed dreamed about the simpler life we would like to lead and how we can incorporate that into our lives now. Currently we are renting a four bedroom home in little Mount Stewart. While we cant go out and buy a cow or sheep or any livestock really there are plenty of ways we as a family can slow down. I have created a "TO DO" list of things that we would like to accomplish. Some can be done right now, while others will we will have to work towards.

Some of the things on our list are:

• start a herb garden 
• start seeds early for our garden this summer
• get some laying hens
• save up for the perfect spot to build our little homestead
• buy local
• compost
• can/preserve as much as we can so we can buy less groceries next winter

I grew up in a large family. (13 kids) We lived on a farm close to where I live now in Prince Edward Island. Being that we were such a large family, my parents had to come up with some very creative ways to feed all of us and try to keep costs down. Most everything we ate was home made. Everything from fresh ground wheat to home made butter to fresh made cheese. I think at the time I thought it was ridiculous but now, that I have my own little family, I see the value in having those skills to use and pass on to my children.

I hope to share some of these ideas and experiences with all of you and I am so excited to be able to look back and see where we are 6 month or even one year from now.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Brianna