So while it's snowing and snowing outside (seriously, do I live in Boston or something?!), Alex and are poring through the Burpee catalog and planning our summer garden. Did you know they have a tomato called the Salsa tomato that is IDEAL for, you guessed it, salsa?! We learned a lot with our first garden last summer.
- We have a better idea of what we want to plant (tomatoes and lots of them, corn, peas, beans, onions, burpless cucumbers, cilantro, peppers, strawberries, raspberries...) and what we don't want to plant (pumpkins, gourds, sunflowers, swiss chard).
- We want to plant a bigger variety of stuff and maximize our space.
- We want to start composting and Alex is going to build us one. Yay!
- We want to make a rain barrel too and decorate it with fun, bright paint (that was my idea).
- We want to make sure we stay on top of weeds this year. They really got the best of us last year, but the crazy thing is that we still had a lot of produce!
- We don't want to waste any food. When the tomato plants kept giving and giving to us generously last year, we got lazy and a lot of tomatoes fell to the ground and rotted. Shame on us. This year, I will use or give away every last tomato. Guess I'm going to make a lot of salsa and pasta sauce and bruschetta. Sounds good to me.
So while it's snowing and snowing outside (seriously, do I live in Boston or something?!), Alex and are poring through the Burpee catalog and planning our summer garden. Did you know they have a tomato called the Salsa tomato that is IDEAL for, you guessed it, salsa?! We learned a lot with our first garden last summer.
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