Friday, June 27, 2014

DIY Fruit and Veggie Garden



Last year I decided I wanted to grow some of my own food. Tomatoes and Strawberries is what I started with.  I didn't have a garden, so I used some containers and kept them on our deck.

This year, I convinced hubby that he needed to build me a garden.  I started some strawberries and watermelon in the house in the spring, and bought some tomatoes at the garden center last week.

When hubby was picking up the supplies for the garden, he also bought 2 more tomato plants and 2 more strawberry plants.

He and Mr. K came home and got to work building the garden beside our deck.  The watermelon has started to flower, and some of the tomatoes have started to grow as well. I cannot wait until everything is ripe and we can enjoy the food!

Do you garden? What is your favourite thing to grow?


41 comments:

  1. Gardens are so wonderful. I planted one with my grandkids and they go out to the garden every day to see if anything has grown. They are so amazed by the progress of the plants.

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    1. :) such fun - and what great memories for them!

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  2. I don't garden, but would love to one day. I love fresh garden tomatoes. They are the best :)

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    1. things just taste better when they are super fresh!

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  3. I would love to have a garden, but with my severe arthritis I wouldn't be able to look after it

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    1. It is especially the price of everything anymore, even the farmers market is getting costly

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  4. I have a flower garden now (I live on first floor of apt.), and it is so pretty. But back in the day when my kids were alot younger, we lived in a trailer home, and the farmer (also my landlord) gave me a "chunk" of his garden, in which I planted, corn, tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, beans, peas, green peppers and onions. Everything grew so good, my daughters had a great time helping out. I really enjoyed it!!

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  5. Awesome. My 4 year old son has helped me with both of our gardens (flowers and veggie). He is such an awesome helper!

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  6. What a great helper you seem to have!

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  7. I love gardening but we have deer that come onto our acreage so I stick to just flowers (have figured out which deer do not like) and just get our veggies from farmer's market.

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  8. Gardening with your children or grandchildren can create beautiful memories

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  9. I have been trying so hard to have a garden. Either my stuff dies or the animals eat it. I am so happy your garden is going well. Thank you for sharing

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  10. Our favorite thing to grow is zucchini. We LOVE zucchini! Never can have enough either. Next year I want to grow strawberries. We don't buy them much these days, unless I can find them at a farmers market, and they are organic. But that seems to be a rarity these days....

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  11. I have a garden on my balcony with herbs and tomatoes.

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  12. I would love to garden, we live in an apartment with a long but skinny balcony...

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  13. My daughter has a huge garden in her backyard and we have a couple of tomato plants in containers

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  14. don't have a place for a garden where I live now but I miss gardening

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  15. What did you end up planting?

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  16. I am just starting to garden, learning from my mom!

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  17. I have a very small garden the my 4 yr old daughter attends to , she picks one vegi to grow every year ! its been a fun experience for us both

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  18. I don't garden, as I have an apartment with no balcony. We had two gardens growing up, though: one with flowers and another with vegetables (carrots, beets, and lettuce).

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  19. We have limited garden space and have not had a lot of luck growing any veggies :( But it is always fun to try! (Judy Cowan)

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  20. no garden this year but usually tomatoes cucumbers & greens

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  21. We have radish, cucumbers and carrots in our garden this year and my son helped plant them all with me. He's so into it.

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  22. We have garden, we grow lots of hot peppers, basil, cherries and berries.

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  23. Have already been harvesting my balcony garden!

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  24. The grandkids just love helping me in my flower garden, I only have two cherry tomato plants though

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  25. A wonderful activity to get the kids involved

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  26. One day I hope to have a HUGE garden!

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  27. I don't garden anymore but we did when the kids were young. We grew cabbage/turnip/tomatoes/strawberries.

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  28. no i don't garden yet, i come from farming families on both sides though, i enjoy other peoples gardens. thanks for the post.

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  29. The garden beside your deck is such a great use of space. I'll have to keep that in mind next year. I totally plan on having a good variety of stuff...flowers, veggies, and berries.

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  30. My son & I have our little herb garden that we started, we loved it! I want to make a bigger one

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  31. I live in an apartment now so it is very difficult to have any sort of garden due to the wind but I used to have a terrific garden. I miss not having one.

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  32. My favorite is peas, carrots and tomato and potatoes

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  33. Next year I am going to try and have a proper garden. This year I tried growing a few tomatoes in pots but I don't think my pots were big enough. But the tomatoes we did get were really, really tasty.

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  34. I get such enjoyment from puttering around in my garden growing different veggies.I love it and hope that you too will enjoy it.It's a great feeling to reap the harvest in the fall.

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  35. Live in a condo building with no patio ... all i want is a garden!

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  36. Oh my Goodness I need to tag this for next year.

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  37. Having your own garden is great if you have a little one. My little guy loves digging and picking the veggies when they are grown. He also loves eating it because he 'made' them.

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