With all that’s going on with COVID-19 I’m grocery shopping a lot less. Plus I’m a little nervous about eating raw vegetables because I don’t know who has handled them.

Luckily, it’s spring so we decided to get back to growing our own vegetables.

Thanks to our neighbors, we now have seeds!

Spring Gardening is Fun and Means more Veggies this Summer

I’m not quite sure how much sun we’ll get in this little raised bed, but it’s worth a shot.

The girls helped me plant kale, garlic, artichokes, carrots, and lettuce. Planting from seeds is so quick and easy!

We just used a shovel to draw a line in the soil, sprinkled the seeds down the line, covered the seeds with soil, and then watered the whole bed. Now we just have to figure out how to protect our seeds and veggies from the deer and other critters.

Choosing Seeds

When choosing seeds be sure to avoid GMO (genetically modified organisms), now often called bio-engineered (BE) seeds. These seeds come from gene-splicing in a lab and not in nature. The following plants have GMO seeds available, so be especially careful if you pick up a packet of corn, cotton, soybeans, alfalfa, papaya, zucchini and summer squash, sugarbeets, canola, potato, or apple seeds.

I found this article on garden seeds to be very helpful in choosing which types of seeds to plant:

https://foodrevolution.org/blog/how-to-choose-garden-seeds/

Do you have a vegetable garden? Please share you tips, and I’d love ideas on protecting our bed from visiting animals.