Falling in Love with our Garden!

Digger's favorite spot in the yard... On the lettuce.

Plants + Weeds = Happiness

One of the things we were excited about when we first bought this house was the garden.  Craig loves plants and trees of all kinds and I love fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers.  We are fortunate the we bought a home that came with tons of plants.  Our first priority in the spring was to build a few more planter boxes for our vegetable garden.  Luckily we've had a lot of help in the garden - Thank you mom, dad, C, B, and N.  The gardening "lessons" often went like this, "That's a weed...  Oh that's a weed too...  You need to pull those - they're weeds!" It was quite humorous when C came over because she would say all the same things but she would tell Craig to do it!  HAHA!  The garden has been a fun adventure this year - each week it looks completely different as different flowers are always blooming and new fruits and veggies are ready all the time.  Our main goal this year was to make the yard more manageable-  which is a work in progress.  In the meantime we've decided to embrace and love the weeds as we can't keep up anyway!

First zucchini

Cherry bucket # 7

Enjoying the fruits of our (and my mom's) labor... I'm pretty proud of my first zucchini - I made Zucchini Lasagne which I highly recommend! It's simple, healthy and tasty.  We've also been enjoying the cherries - I made Paleo Dark Chocolate Cherry Brownies with N that ended up tasting like cheesecake... not sure how but it was good! Buying groceries is much easier when you take the following off your list - lettuce, strawberries, herbs, tomatoes, cherries, and zucchini.  The anticipation of more fruit and veggies is exciting - Gardening is good.

Garden + Love = Delicious Summer Lunches!