Growing Vegetable Soup

There is a book by Lois Elhert titled Growing Vegetable Soup.  This book talks about the things grown in the garden they use to make vegetable soup.  I often think of this book when I plant my garden.  The things I plant will make great soup this winter.  Saturday I finally got my garden planted and though it isn't finished yet at least everything is in the ground.  I picked up tomatoes and peppers from the FFA green house on Saturday morning while Madison was at volleyball camp so I had to get them in the ground so I just worked at getting everything planted.  This year I have six rows of corn, two rows of beans.  I am trying something new this year and am doing pole beans instead of bush so I still need to get a trellis up for them.  I have one row of peas and one hill of cucumber.  Then I also have four roma tomato plants and four red bell pepper plants.  I am also trying lettuce out front in my big planters.  The strawberry patch is doing well and I have already harvested a dew dozen strawberries that are very sweet.  The blueberries are doing okay and I am working at getting a net over them so the birds won't get them this year.  I thought I had lost all the blueberries after they had blossomed and then froze but some are still going so that makes me happy.  I also have planted cilantro, basil and parsley in pots.  I am looking forward to what the harvest will bring this year.

Andrew was a big help.  Here he is turning on the irrigation system.

 The strawberry patch is in the terrace box and then there are four blueberry bushes up above.  The one on the far end is very small.  It was broken off over the winter, but seems to be coming back.

Tomatoes and peppers

My garden helpers.