Planting our 2023 Garden
Gardening season is here! This year, our garden is bigger and better than last! I am so excited to have it started! I feel way more confident than last, and have more hope for successful crops!
Here are last year’s garden posts if you’re interested. My sister will take care of certain crops, and other crops I’ll take care of other.
What are we planting this year?
- Green peas
- Lettuce
- Red Onions
- Golden Potatoes
- Carrots
- Green beans
- Zucchini
- Blackberries
- Raspberries
Peas and Lettuce:
Little eaten pea sproutlings
Little lettuce
We planted these in early spring. The peas and lettuce sprouted beautifully, and then the wild bunnies chomped on them. We now have a fence around the garden bed, which has kept them out so far. We don’t think they’ll come back up since it’s getting quite hot now, but we’ll keep an eye out.
For the onions and potatoes, I planted them in “potato” bags. The garden bed isn’t deep; we’re growing them in bags. Last year, I tried planting sweet potatoes from sprouted ones I found in my pantry. I only got a few tiny ones. I’ve also tried to grow golden potatoes from sprouts, but they never grew. This time, I got seed potatoes and am more hopeful.
I never tried growing onions because they’re easy to get at the store. But this year, I want to try because they’re an easier crop. Hopefully, they’ll grow too. I tried growing garlic last year, but…that didn’t turn out well.
Carrots:
I have one carrot growing from a sprout, and it’s growing well! But we’ll also plant carrot seeds, probably in the fall. I did plant them last year, too, and got a few! When I cooked them, they turned almost yellow, so I could tell which carrots were mine in my dinner with them.
Zucchini and Beans:
In the summer, we will grow some zucchini and green beans! I’m more excited about the beans. Last year we also planted some, but I learned that seeds do expire…We got a few tiny little ones and had one plant out of, I think, 20 or so I planted.
Berries:
We have a little blackberry bush growing! It accidentally got weed whacked, but it’s making a comeback. I can’t wait to have fresh juicy blackberries!
Then I have my dear raspberry plant. I believe the original plant is dead, but I have 16 off little springs growing beautifully! I started planting them in pots last year, which I think killed them. Raspberries are meant to spread out, but they can’t when they’re in pots. But since they’re new shoots, I won’t get a crop till the fall. If my original plant survived, it would produce this summer.
We also have one little strawberry plant. We’ve seen a few flowers on it, but no fruit.
Flowers:
We planted flowers in multiple spots this year. We’ll plant some marigolds around the mailbox and in the garden, and I planted some around my bird feeders. The ones around the bird feeders are for hummingbirds. I hope they come up, but I don’t think they will. It’s pretty shady, except in the morning. I will also try and do some sunflowers again. I’ll put a fence around them because the wild bunnies will eat them all.
Backyard pets:
It’s not really a part of the garden…but we got bunnies! Two Holland Lops, a white one, Felicity, and a grey one, Koda! They’re adorable!
Are you planting anything in a garden this year? If so, what? Do you have any great tips for a successful garden?
That is all for now, but I will update you in the summer!
~Becky 🙂
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