Spring Garden Update Week 5

The rainy weather has prevented me from taking many pictures of the garden lately.  I took advantage of the break in the weather to record the progress.





Carrots



Turnips



Sugar snap peas

Potatoes

Beets

Earlier this week, my mom told me that I needed to come pick some mustard greens.  The night I stopped by, she wasn't at home, so I ventured out to pick some of the greens which I have never cooked before.  I knew what the collard greens looked like because they conveniently had a label:





The plant to it's right looked similar so I happily plucked off some of the leaves and went on my way:

In case you are ever in a similar What plant is this again? dilemma.  This is what mustard greens look like:





Oops!  Thankfully, I realized my mistake before I fixed sauteed Brussels sprouts leaves.  But Mom and I had a good laugh.  She thought a rabbit had destroyed her plant.  Nope.  Just me.







Note to self: Don't wear flip flops in the garden.



This weekend we fixed the mustard and collard greens, so look for that recipe later this week!

Spring Garden Week 2

Despite the snow, the spring garden is 2 weeks in and we have some signs of life!  We also planted potatoes this weekend and another row of carrots.  The ground looks pretty dry, but I promise these plants have been receiving plenty of water.  Please forgive my photography skills....



If you look really hard you can find 2 carrot plants




Beans (soon we'll add some wire for them to grow on)



Sugar snap peas in a pot

Just a woman and her garden

Poor little guy got snapped in the snow

Turnips

Isn't it cool that God designed plants to grow like this?  And cool that there are specific nutrients in these plants to meet the needs of our bodies?  What a creative God we have!