Let’s talk about something this year that has been good and inspirational: the veg garden.

The ranch has a sizable area fenced off in the backyard for a vegetable garden (or a rose garden?). It separates a big portion of the yard (probably 16×32) from the grass and keeps large four-legged animals out (but not the rats or squirrels, lol). I don’t think it would have occurred to us to build a fence around such a big portion of the yard for a garden. But we like it and have been using it every year since we moved in.

This yeah we went wild with seeds, since March is when the stockpiling panic began. And I had anxiety. Which manifested itself in seed collecting & garden planning! My mom also mailed us a ton of seeds which was great!

We planted: shelling peas, green beans, spinach, kale, butter lettuce, cauliflower, carrots, and got some tomato starts from a fancy local place. We couldn’t find swiss chard seeds, so I’m gonna let the monster chard plants go to seed and harvest those. Anyone need any?

Here’s how it’s looking: