Today I am thankful for my garden and for being able to grow food. Its not very big, as we currently live on a small town section. I have managed to squeeze in a wee raised garden bed and it's enough for me to grow a few crops to help supplement our groceries over summer.
At the moment it's winter time and we have been having quite a few hard frosty mornings, so nothing much is surviving, other than our silverbeat (swiss chard) that I use in my green smoothies.
In the summer months I can grow heaps of foods. I've grown spinach, carrots, tomatoes, radishes, courgettes, lettuce, pumpkins and potatoes. We also have a few small fruit trees with nectarines, peaches, apples and apricots. We got so many peaches and nectarines last season that we ended up putting them at our front gate and giving them away.
This was some of the nectarines from our tree
This year (if we're still here in summer time) we plan on growing some peas too for my daughter. She loves peas and I think she'd love seeing how they grow. I've also seen someone grow some popping corn near by. I think that would be really fun to grow so might give that a try too.
I'm eager to get back into my garden and looking forward to the weather improving so I can get back out there. Last year my daughter loved watering the garden. I'm keen to get her back involved in it. We still have some cold weather forecast here but I'll be starting to get some seedlings started in the next few weeks. That's something that I can get my daughter involved in. I'm excited for her to see things grow from a tiny seed.
Growing my own food makes me incredibly happy and I'm thankful that I have a wee space to have a garden.