Summer Gardens and Produce
We have had a beautiful summery weekend – the kind that makes you think of barbeques and picnics! And as you may recall from my complaining in April, this was a long winter in Edmonton! My grass still isn’t fully green and I haven’t even seen buds on the trees yet. But a summery weekend it was and it made me think about plans for gardening this summer and attending the Farmer’s Market. I checked and my favorite market (in St. Albert) will be open June 13th for the season. Another good one will be open even earlier – May 16th is the opening of the City Market in downtown Edmonton!
As for my summer garden, traditionally here in Edmonton we don’t plant until after the May long weekend. I do have most of my seeds purchased though and our square foot gardens are set up and ready to go! Last year was our first doing a square foot garden and I LOVED it! The kids helped a lot too. It was easy to plant, easy to weed and we had tons of produce out of just three squares. So this year we are doing six squares so we can plant a bit more of certain things (like potatoes – I love garden potatoes). Here’s our list of things we’ll be planting this year:
- potatoes
- carrots
- peas
- zucchini
- onions
- shallots
- tomatoes
- pumpkins
- yellow beans (for pickling!)
Hmmm, think there is more but I can’t remember it all! I also just remembered that DH needs to put up a thing to help the peas. Last year we used some bamboo sticks for support but it really wasn’t enough support at all. We’ll hopefully have the weather to plant on the long weekend of May, and then a couple days later it will be time to leave for our trip to Disneyland!!
Any of my readers do gardening or even square foot gardening? I totally recommend it (the book that helped me was this one by Mel Bartholomew – got it from the library!)
Laurie/Mobile Mommy
Tags: disneyland, farmers market, garden, produce, square foot gardening, summer, vegetables
