Our Little Garden

For years I've wanted some form of a garden. We've lived on Elliot St for a little over three years now and I never did any research about raised beds. This year our good friend Eric Compton (@ecmptn) was an encouraging factor after he got his raised bed built and filled. Our backyard is pretty small so we for this year at least we managed to get a 6x4 raised bed and a small patch on the side for strawberries started.

We've made the Salem Saturday Market a weekly tradition in 2010. Nolan and Mila load up into the jogging stroller and I take the 4.75 mile jog to the market. Prego mama meets us down there and we get our weekly veggie/fruit needs. We've have a good time meeting up with friends (mainly the Comptons) on occasion and usually grabbing lunch at Uncle Dino's place downtown.

We were able to score some nice veggie starts from the Minto Island Grower's stand at the market. So far we have tomatoes, peppers, cilantro, basil, summer squash, zucchini and strawberries (from LifeSource) - all organic starts. Nolan calls it our "salsa garden" :-).