Summer!

I have not posted in forever and I apologize for that because I know SO many people read this and really care about what I'm doing in my life...... haha.

Anyway, the reason for me not posting nearly as much is because I'm spending all my time working at the garden center in order to get money to buy me a sexy Ford Escape. I've come to the conclusion that everybody in Duluth but me has one and it's just not fair. However, mine is still a couple months away. But I'm workin' towards it! I love working at the garden center :) I get to get some sun and I get to be with plants all day. And talk to people about plants. And look at a weeping white pine that I want really, really badly. Someday I WILL have one and it will be beautiful.

My very own garden is coming along quite nicely as well. I have beans, peas, corn, carrots, onions, beets, spinach and kale growing in the garden so far. Kale, in case you haven't heard, is part of One Vegetable: One Community. You probably haven't heard because as far as I know it's just a Duluth thing that started right now but I really like the idea and think that all cities should start doing it. The idea is that the community picks a vegetable to grow every summer and people can share their info, recipes, anything about kale. Then at the end of the growing season there will be a kale potluck for the community to be a part of. I'm hoping I can find some recipes I can make with the kale I grow this summer so I can go to the potluck. We'll see, this is my first time growing kale, though I've wanted to for a few years now. It's a good vegetable to use for the first year, it grows well in our zone and is one of the top superfoods. Hopefully it will bring recognition to kale because either people don't know about it period or are like me and not exactly sure what to do with it once it's grown.

After going off on a huge tangent, back to my garden. I have pumpkins started that we're going to put in the ground as soon as Matt is done with the fence to keep the dogs in and the deer out. It'll be interesting to see if the deer actually stay out..... I doubt they will. I also picked up some eggplant and tomatoes for the garden today at the farmer's market (I got to see Charlie there and he's getting sooooo big and he's the cutest little thing I've ever seen. It was tough having to give him back to Katie). And went on a search for zucchini without any luck. But once I have the zucchini I believe my garden will be complete! I'm super excited for things to start producing because I have some serious homegrown vegetable cravings right now!

I guess that's probably it for right now. Maybe I will blog more over the next three weeks because Matt will be working from 5pm-1am for the next couple weeks and I won't know what to do with myself all alone :( Once our yard is cleaned up a little big from making the garden and building a fence I will post a picture of my beautiful garden growing!

Later!