House Creature #5

Spring garden tour, my own naan recipe, and the best chair hammock.

It’s garden time! Over the past 3 weeks, we’ve been filling pots, topping off beds, mulching, weeding, planting, seeding… and now that exhausting part is over! There’s no more space to add anything else.

I thought it would be fun to do a mini garden tour now, at the beginning of the season, and then again at the end, in August or September. I love seeing how people’s gardens evolve over the summer and learning which plants were happy and which plants need some changes to placement or watering the following year.

A little garden summary:

• We have about 250 square feet of container garden, 95% of that is vegetables, with a few flowers around too.

• 5 fruit trees - two apple, one sour cherry, one plum, and one peach. They are still quite young, so we get a lot of cherries, a few apples, and not much from the peach and plum.

• A wide variety of perennial plants and shrubs, about 75% are native to Minnesota.

What we’re harvesting this week: cilantro, chives, mint, kale, tarragon, and thyme.

Here is the late spring/early summer veggie garden tour!