I think it was around the end of March, early April when we started that years crop. Everything from seed again (this time in the garage on a couple of camping tables).  It is very rewarding to have it grow right from the seed you planted and also, you know everything that went it to the growing. We don’t like to use any chemicals whatsoever. We continually boil the kettle to give better water to our plants. We didn’t always do it. It was very time consuming. We later figured out a better way to water our plants, but at this time, we boiled the kettle.

We found that it can get pretty costly to be buying those kits for starting seeds as we wanted to plant several different types of seeds. So we tried different things to be a little more resourceful. We cut up paper towel and toilet paper rolls and placed them in last years plastic trays and the rest on a board. I used a small piece of OSB that was left over from building our home and continued to plant some Peas and Morning Glorys in these little things.

Well, when it was time for transplanting, I realized this was a bad idea…the roots of the Morning Glorys had grown into the board. I couldn’t pull them out, I was afraid I was going to tear the root. So, I planted the whole darn board in the ground hoping that they would continue to flourish. They didn’t! They did grow a little bit longer, but eventually died.

The peas worked out good though. I transplanted them into bigger pots right away. They grew so friggin fast, I was amazed!! Peas became my favourite thing to grow…probably because its super easy, but mostly because they amaze me with their little vines and how they grab ahold of anything to stabilize themselves. Blows me away.

This was the year that we started our vegetable garden in our backyard. We purchased some organic soil at the local farm to add to our mixture of dirt we got from the woods next to our house. We have a screen that we sift the dirt to get rid of the rocks and stuff…and boom-beautiful dirt. We added some manure to it too…stinky but so worth it. Oh and all the pots that we had the previous year for all of our planting was dumped into this garden as well. I must say, it turned out pretty good for us.

We made 5 drills. Planted 2 types of potatoes – white and yukon gold, turnip, orange carrots and coloured carrots.