Our fall garden

During the summer our garden was let go.  It was too hot to get out and me being pregnant didn't help.. so we didn't get outside much.  The weeds went crazy and the yard was just a mess! (Well, the mess still is around all the time here, but it was even worse.. I think you get the point).  : )

Once it started to cool down a bit and I got some more energy we started clearing out our garden beds and planting some things.  I do believe Jesse was the first to get the "planting bug".. I think he cleared the first bed.  One evening it was so nice and cool I just went to town clearing out bed after bed (I think I cleared 3 out of 5 that night).  Anywho, the results are wonderful.  Now we have some garden crops starting to grow.

But first we needed to make the garden area "chicken proof" to keep our seeds from being scratched up or eaten!-Which has happened in the past..

We spend less money on chicken feed when the chickens can "free range" in the yard, so the fence was important.  The barrier is nothing fancy, just things around the yard used normally for garden trellis' and shade did the trick.  It's not the nicest thing to look at, but it works and it didn't cost us anything to do it.

Our chickens are happy to be able to run in the rest of the yard and we are happy that they can't mess up the garden.  : )

Screens we used to shade the plants have worked nicely for a fence.

                                     Here are some of the things we are growing this season....

Trying potatoes in tires this time!

Tomatoes and "volunteer" sweet potatoes.

Another angle of the tomatoes and sweet potatoes.

Bush cucumbers and cotton.

Beans with tepee and strings to climb.

Oregano (in front) and rosemary (in back).

Wheat.. haven't weeded, but it's kind of hard to with wheat at first.

Banana trees we have grown for years with no fruit.. hope that changes soon.

I forgot to take a picture of the bed with carrots and green onions, but it looks kind of like the wheat bed.. it needs weeded bad because it's hard to tell the difference on the green onion side.

That's about all in this garden section of the yard.  We do have some other things we are growing in other parts of the yard too that I might blog about later.  I always am inspired and excited to see other peoples garden.  Though not super spectacular, I hope you enjoyed the tour and are motivated to grow something too!  : )