We’ve always had vegetable gardensin our yard. In our old house we built a set of 4 x 4 x 10 garden boxes raised from the ground so that the rabbits and the deer would steer clear. We love to plant care carrots, tomatoes, zucchini, cucumber, lettuce, and all kinds of vegetables to enjoy throughout the season.
Last year while we were waiting for our landscaping to be done, we actually joined a CSA - a collective seasonal agreement - with Fifth Generation Gardens close to Beaumont. They offered door delivery weekly for 13 weeks during the harvest season, which we got by committing to payment upfront to help her with her season. We had farm fresh vegetables delivered every week! It was so fun to have a variety of vegetables - even some we’ve never discovered before or cooked with before.
She always included delicious recipes and new ideas of what to do with this abundance of delicious vegetables. We tried patty pan squash for the first time, garlic scrapes, and even had lots of beet greens for the first time, too! This year we are excited to have a fence built so that we can actually put up vertical garden boxes on the fence and garden to grow most of our own vegetables.
Over the winter we’ve had an aero garden inside the house for herbs and lettuce and fresh salads, but we’re really looking forward to getting outside in the sunshine! Just getting your hands dirty in the dirt, watering the plants, seeing them grow, and teaching the kids some self sustainability and 'eating what we’ve grown'. Nothing like seeing your three-year-old lift up a zucchini equally as tall as she is cutting it up and making zucchini bread that she subsequently gobbles up.
Last year in an effort to do some landscaping in the front and a small garden, we planted some vegetables from BMR greenhouses just south of Beaumont. They were very helpful and had lots of selection - and their own proprietary soil mix which grew great tomatoes. We just needed more sunshine!
We are also looking forward to picking up a couple of trees from Cheyenne tree farm this year, and going to check out nearby New Beginnings Greenhouse as well.
Are there any other gardening spots around town that you know of? Please let us know!
DID YOU KNOW? There is also a plant and seed exchange group on Facebook in Beaumont where people will exchange different seeds or ask questions about gardening and pest control and how to grow things best here in the different climate and soil that we have here in Beaumont.
What a great place to share a collective love of gardening!
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