Ah, the simple life: Open the gate

... But not to deer! Our house has taken on a task that may be a little over our heads, but still exciting. We've started a little veggie garden in our backyard! Now, just so you don't get your hopes up of a huge harvest later this season, you need to know something about where I live: it's a high altitude desert! I'll be happy if even half of it turns up. However, it seems to be doing ok so far (it's been about a month!). This afternoon we did our first hoeing of weeds- we'll have to do that more frequently from here on out. We had our first visitors over the weekend: deer! Luckily, we can enclose our back area.

I'm excited to see what will actually pop up. We planted onions, lettuce, spinach, broccoli, chard, peas, carrots, radishes, basil, and cucumbers! Oh, I hope I can one day just go outside and get my salad or ingredients!

While our backyard is quite active, our front is something of an eyesore. There are a few aspens which are nice, the tree we planted for Chloe (it survived and started to bloom!), and a few flowers around her tree. However, the rest of the area is straight up dirt that only has some weeds. Maybe one day we'll get some grass going, but for now I want to concentrate on useful plants!