Jun 23 2009
Our Garden of Eating
Our little garden in the backyard is our pride and joy! We work hard to achieve a healthy and organic garden full of herbs, vegetables, and fruit. We thought it would be nice to showcase all of our plants for our readers to enjoy. With almost 100 pictures, we are sure you’ll find something you like. We started taking photos of the garden in the Spring of 2009 and have continually added more as we progressed the garden through the seasons. You will see a variety of crop, the stages of growth, and even our bountiful harvest that we picked. Majority of the vegetables, and even some of the fruit, were used in a lot of our cooking. To see the different dishes we’ve created, check out the Gardening category under the Recipes section on the right-hand column. We hope that through these images, we have inspired you to start your own little garden. Nothing is more rewarding than eating your own homegrown produce.
Wow! Its gorgeous! What a spectacular array of produce … its like you have a whole market in your back yard … including and avocado tree!?! Color me jealous. Congrats to you on all of the hard work, its certainly paying off.
Thanks for sharing too! I’ll be raiding my bro’s garden when I pop home for a visit this weekend and I can’t wait.
wow! your guys’ garden is amazing!! nothing like eating fresh, yummy, goodness!!! keep it up!
Wow!! We’re soooo envious! don’t even have a backyard to even think about starting one
That avocado looks like it has a great dish written all over it when it grows up!
Wow!!! Thank you for sharing photos of your awesome garden! I never knew you guys have such a variety back there. All very healthy and looking GREAT! Daniel should have his own little corner about gardening. Mark and I would love to learn from him! Keep the photos coming!!
Gorgeous! Having a veggie garden is a huge accomplishment and A LOT OF WORK! I know this to be true! How nice it is to just go in the yard and say “what do I feel like for supper tonight?” I’m curious….are you in Canada or the U.S?
This is really amazing. Is really quite difficult for me to grow all this veggie in Singapore because the weather is always Summer all through the year. Will come again and link you to my blog. Tks!
Oh my goodness!! You could open a market with all those wonderful veges & fruits from your TRULY magnificent garden. You both have really green hands. Well done! Super, super, duper awesome! I love your garden!
I would so love to have a garden like this but I have trouble with pests here in Florida. Do you have a lot of pest problems? If so what do you use to control them? I prefer organic gardening but it almost seems impossible for me to not use pesticides down here!
Unfortunately when you garden, you will always have pest no matter where you grow. I usually just pick the pest off or try to get rid of them with water. This just takes a lot of time and attention. There are plenty of organic sprays you can make in your kitchen to help control pest as well, such as beer, and garlic chili sprays. Hope this helps!
Wow!!! What a great job you’ve done. I love veggie gardens!
I’m so impressed and envious of your garden. I have no idea how to garden but hope to learn in the not-so-distant future.
You have a vanilla orchid!!!! Where can I get one and is it difficult to grow it in our area?
Hi Stephanie this is not the Vanilla planifolia species. This is another species that smells like vanilla but is not edible nor does it produce fruit. I did try going vanilla planifolia one time but it didn’t survive for the fact that it requires a tropical environment.
What a beautiful garden! Makes me excited to get our garden going this year!
Great pictures! i love to garden too, and love taking pictures of my garden. There is so mauch beauty in plants and watching them grow and produce food. i never get tired of it. i’m new to your blog, but am enjoying surfing around it.
I have to say. Your site looks amazing!!! I will really have to sit down and check out everything. And I will definitely use your recipes. Great job on the photos. They look great!
Great pictures! i love to garden too, and love taking pictures of my garden. There is so mauch beauty in plants and watching them grow and produce food. i never get tired of it. i’m new to your blog, but am enjoying surfing around it.
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Wow. That is not little. This is my first yr. ever to have a garden…I hope to have on like that one day. I love LOVE the fresh berries. I have garden envy…”)
Thanks for the garden inspiration. I’m interested to know what do you guys do with the surplus produce?
Well to be honest we usually end up giving away all the surplus produce to family and friends. We now have two addictions: food and gardening – which isn’t a bad thing.
Your garden is superb! So much variety in your produce which looks so lush, green and healthy! You obviously spend a lot of time tending your garden!
Mine is pretty much neglected this year – too many hobbies like crafting and planning for babies arrival (& blogging) that is taking my time this year! I think I won’t have much to show for garden produce except for onions and potatoes (maybe I should have bought baby plants from garden centre and put them in ground?). I was hoping to have sugarsnap peas and sweetcorn as I knew I wouldn’t be doing much digging and bending (given my condition) but our naughty chickens found their way into the veg bed and dug/ate the peas and sweetcorn before they germinated!