! Kitchen Garden !

                                        Grow Edibles 

         

I love beautiful flowers, especially if they are edible !

I recently, last couple of years, have really been inspired by the grow food not lawn pictures floating around the web. 

What a concept, 

your lawn could be edible if you dug up the dirt and planted seeds in it. 

My lawn is by no means 100% edible. 

My husband, son, and I  moved into our current home two months ago and started phase one of our kitchen garden. 

Phase one. 

 * Plant and design landscape with perennials.

* Make raised beds 

* plant small summer garden

*plant small fall garden  

 * Plant and design landscape with perennials.

The outer edge of our landscape will host most of our perennials. 

The perennials planted this year are: 5 blues berry bushes, 2 black berry, 2 kiwi, 1 peach tree, 5 strawberries, various herbs. 

* Make raised beds 

We have 4 wooden beds with plants growing in them and 2 being prepped for our fall garden. 

* plant small summer garden

Our summer garden consists of 1 cherry tomato plant, and 10+ tomato plants, 5 pepper plants, 2 water melon plants, 1 peanut plant, zucchini, eggplant, salad greens, basil, lemon balm, lavender, mint, aloe vera, and parsley. 

  *plant small fall garden

Our fall garden is being prepped to plant beets, collards, kale, spinach, broccoli, and carrots. 

Latest photos of our first home's first garden. 

I am currently located in the growing zone 7 a. 

Here is zone 7a vegetable planting calendar.