Josh and I have just spent a lovely and productive Victoria Day weekend planting our newly expanded vegetable garden.  We’ve converted two of our flower beds to accommodate our 25 strawberry plants and 7 tomato plants, amongst other newcomers.  I’m very excited for our edible garden this year.  We actually started our seeds early enough this year and our tomato plants are over a foot tall already!  We also have a variety of herbs this year and our watermelon seedling is still alive!

Here’s a list of what’s in our garden this year:

• tomatoes: black cherry, blanche beaute, new: yellow cherry, beefsteak and ruffled red
• herbs: sweet basil, thyme, chives, cilantro and parsley
• potatoes
• garlic: five different varieties (one did not survive the fridge)
• sweet red pepper
• wax beans
• sugar snap peas
• carrots: scarlet nantes and Chanteny
• veestar strawberries
• blueberries: northland and northcountry
• raspberries

not planted yet: golden midget watermelon

Our local CSA share starts up again in 3 weeks.  Soon, we’ll be back to eating all local, all the time.