Knitting a Family: Our 2013 Garden

As soon as we returned home from Florida, the whole family was excited to start planting flowers and vegetables. Josh still had two days left of vacation from work so he got started right away building planter boxes. We now have two beautiful 6'x4' boxes that are a foot and a half off the ground - hopefully to deter rabbits!

This year we planted three different kinds of tomatoes, yellow bell peppers, broccoli. carrots, sugar snap peas, watermelon and cantaloupe. We also think we may have a pumpkin plant growing! EM planted some seeds from last years pumpkin in hopes that they would grow. The sugar snap peas and carrots were started as seeds and are already popping out.

Whenever Josh asks if there is anything I would like for Mother's Day, I usually go right for flowers! Our front flower garden has really taken off this year with all of the perennials we've planted in the last two years. The only plant that hasn't survived was the hyacinth.

This year we added window boxes to our front windows and they look so beautiful! I chose to fill them with pink and white geraniums and ivy.

My sweet family also gave me a beautiful hanging geranium pot, which has been claimed as a nest for mourning doves. We don't mind though, it will be so much fun to see! Hopefully they will allow us to water it once in a while.