The promise of glorious things to come!!

I cannot expect anyone to understand the joy I feel inside right now with the progress of my garden.  It just makes my soul sing!  I am planning to do a small fall/winter planting this weekend with some lettuce, spinach and carrots.  I have 2 squash plants that are doing very well.  The zucchini plant has at least 4 tiny little barbie size starts on them and the yellow crookneck has 2.  I have just picked my first 3 cherry size tomatoes and am looking forward to having them for dinner tonight.

This past weekend involved filling my 4 raised beds with 2 yards of mushroom soil and spreading 4 yards of dark bark in my front yard.  I have my son Shane and his friend Ian (sp?) to thank for that.  They worked really hard and I am very grateful for their assistance.

I have started saving little containers for seed starting of next years garden and I can hardly wait!!  I bought a great book on canning and preserving and look forward to making some killer relishes and sauces and such.  This is not your grandma's green beans that I am going for here....not that there is anything wrong with that!!  I do not have a house full of people to feed so for me this is more about the gardening itself and getting to explore flavors and smaller batches of unique things.

Here is a picture of the garden beds now full and ready to plant....along with a picture of my 3 little tomatoes that make me smile!!

Slow but sure....

Working on the garden still.....it all takes so much time when you are doing it mostly alone and move as slow as I do these days!

Hoping to have them level and order garden soil next week.  :-)  I have to get on this, I have rhubarb coming soon.  I also have tiny tiny little crookneck and zucchini squashes on the plants seen on the back wall.  Woohoo!