We are so excited because we are getting ready to plant our garden upstate.  We have two gardens upstate (protected by tall fences because there are a lot of deer up there).  One is our vegetable garden and the other is our flower/fruit tree garden (sometimes this is just the “weed” garden…we always manage to plant the vegetable garden but once in a while we just get too busy to plant the back garden…this year we are determined to plant both!)

The front garden is completely ready to plant (covered with weed cloth & bricks, and just waiting to make sure no more frost possible); the back garden still needs a little work but Mom said she’d help with that 🙂

We have ordered a lot of great vegetable seeds to plant here: kale, kalediscope carrots, peas, lettuce, pumpkins, zucchini and Yukon gold and fingerling potatoes.  We love growing potatoes because they are so much fun to dig up and we collect all the worms that we find when we dig the potatoes up and then go fishing in our pond with them.  We will also buy local tomato plants to plant when the weather gets warmer.  There is nothing like a fresh tomato from your garden!

Some of the vegetable seeds/plants we ordered today.

For the flower garden, traditionally we have just planted sunflowers.  One year we even made a sunflower maze (see below). But this year we are planting sunflowers (of course), zinnias, delphinium and holly hock. Mom chose most of these flowers this year because she said they reminded her of her family’s garden in Iowa. We also have two apple treas and a peach tree in this garden.

Some of the flowers we ordered today

Sunflower Garden from last year

In the middle of the Sunflower Maze (two years ago)