Wow, where has the time gone! I’ve had a very fun and busy filled past couple of weeks. It was wonderful…I got to soak in some time with my new baby nephew, attend a family wedding, visit my family in Southern California, do A LOT of solar cooking (more to come on that later), work on my new book (yes, you read the right…be very excited people it WILL be awesome!), and spend time with my most favorite people (one of whom got to meet his heros Elmo and Cookie Monster). Oh yes, and I may or may not have chopped my hair (EEK!).
Here I am getting ready to cook ribs in the Sun Oven with my brother.
All in all it was a great and well needed vacation. But the biggest surprise of all was waiting for me when I got home….
TA DA! Yes, that is my garden! I couldn’t believe it when I saw it. I’ve never had the plants in my garden get so huge. In fact the next day, I picked three zucchinis (one is already ready for zucchini bread) a shopping bag FULL of lettuce, radishes, beans and spotted at least FOUR cantaloupes, a couple watermelon, squash, huge crops of tomatoes and HUGE bell peppers. I was embarrassingly giddy for my whole neighborhood to see. I’m even having a newspaper article written about my food storage and they want to take a picture of me in my garden! What a perfect ending to a perfect vacation. Now for those of you who don’t remember what my garden looked like before I left here are the before shots…
THIS WAS ABOUT A MONTH AGO AND A HALF AGO…
HERE IT IS A WEEK BEFORE I LEFT…
AND NOW…
I knew I was really grateful to Belinda at www.homegardenstogo.com but now I’m REALLY grateful. I’ve never left a garden for a few weeks and came back to something alive let alone something so wonderful! I’m definitely a believer and so excited to FINALLY have a great garden!
GET PRO HELP FOR YOUR GARDEN!
Need more help with your garden? (Like me!) Belinda would love to help! Check out all she has to offer to help you set up your garden correctly. I personally had her come set up all of my boxes since I a) wanted to make sure it was done correctly and b) my husband works a lot of nights and Saturdays and didn’t have the time to dedicate to building and setting up boxes.
- Local (Utah) Square Foot Garden Packages
- Shipped Square Foot Garden Packages
- Square Foot Gardening Accessories (Mel’s Mix Soil, Drip Irrigation Systems, Grids, etc.)
- Critter Cage (featured in the video)
She is also offering all of you a FREE copy of Mel’s book The All NEW Square Foot Gardening with a garden package purchase-use the code “Q44I63MPGWH9Q” at check out.
DID YOU MISS A DAY OF THE SQUARE FOOT GARDENING CLASS?
No problem! Click one of the links below to see what you’ve missed!
Day One: Basics of Square Foot Gardening
Day Two: Secrets for Planning a Successful Garden
Day Three: The Boxes! Learn how to make them, buy them, and some secret benefits!
Day Four: Mixing Your Soil: Mel’s Mix!
Day Five: Composting-learn everything you need to know about efficient and effective composting
Day Six: Watering
Day Seven: Seeds with bonus videos on how to start your seeds indoors!
Day Eight: Planting!
Harvesting Spinach with out the Grit!
Growing with the vertical trellis
See what Belinda did in my own yard!
Gardening Fun for Kids
How to Strengthen Your Plants
Knowing when it is a weed
How to organize seeds and planting
Belinda talks her Favorite Herbs
Your garden is beautiful!!!
Is this the Garden in NSL at the top of center street?
No. Sorry!
People should take care about their plants if they want grow them good.