Our own Veggie Tales ...........

So this year is the start year of the Armour Family Garden :) I'm so excited. We have the space this year and the time to do it finally. I am sooo excited to get it off the ground and going. We are all about being as self sufficient as we can. I would love to be able to feed my family whole, organic foods all the time but hey, there is a budget in this house ;) So this is one way we can have some without paying $10 for an apple. We have a freezer filled with venison, and that is our red meat most the time. We will have to work on finding a farm to buy part of a pig or something like that. But hopefully, if all goes well we will have a plethora of fresh veggies coming out of our yard in the future! And the kids are so excited. I'm looking forward to showing them how food really is made :) and how if you work at something you can get good rewards. We will be planting, tomatoes, sweet peppers, basil, chives, parsley, rosemary, cucumbers (small and large) dill, okra, lettuce, squash (excited about trying the blossoms!) beans, strawberry's, and black/raspberry's. Kyle is getting ready to build our floating raised beds. These are raised beds that are actually on legs. This way we don't have to tear up the yard and I have complete control of the soil that we are using. We will have five of these. I'm going to outline the different boxes only for my own memory :)

Box 1: Tomatoes, sweet peppers, parsley, chives and basil. All of these are good companion growers. Tomatoes protect the pepper which are susceptible to sun scorch. All the herbs increase the health of both tomatoes and peppers.

Box 2: Cucumbers, beans, dill, radishes, rosemary, okra and lettuce. The cucumbers and beans make good neighbors because they both like the same soil and can climb on the same support.. Dill helps the health of your beans. Same with rosemary. Radishes protect cucumbers and beans from pests. Then on the opposite side of the box I will have a few okra plants with lettuce surrounding the plants. They both life the same kind of soil and once the okra plants gets really tall they protect the lettuce leaves from sun scorch as well!

Box 3: Squash and radishes. Squash I'm so excited about because you can eat the male blossoms and they are suppose to be super good. and radishes of course because they protect cucumbers and squash from bugs and such.

Box 4: Strawberry's! This entire box will be a strawberry patch :) This family can eat their weight in berry's! and garlic will be planted with them. Garlic protects the soil from pests and makes the fruit it is grown with super juicy!! (don't worry, none of the plants will taste like garlic :)

box 5: Blackberries and Raspberries. Garlic for the same reason!

So that is it :) Will keep this blogs posted about our project and how everything turns out. If it ends up good I think I"m going to be proficient in freezing and canning and making jams :)