This year we started a garden in our backyard. This is our first Spring and Summer in this house, and it has been really fun to see many different flowers bloom in our front and side yards. Below are the flowers blooming in our backyard this summer.

However, it is a lot more exciting to try to grow things from seeds, especially herbs and vegetables. We are not so big on growing flowers right now. In the future, we would love to plant a butterfly-attracting flower garden.

The Herb Corner

Here we have peppermint and basil.

The Cabbages

We didn’t grow these from seeds. We got them as very young plants from Walmart.

The Tomato and Cucumber Plants

These were grown from seeds. They grow quite fast: we can see their progress everyday.

The Pumpkin Plant

This sprouted by itself from some seed mixed in our compost heap. Because we mix our kitchen scraps with potting soil in the compost heap, we sometimes find random things sprouting in there.

The Onion Flowers

The most interesting thing I have seen in our garden so far are the onion flowers. This onion plant sprouted by itself in the compost pile.

We have honeysuckle vines and a very robust kind of vine whose name is unknown to us. We have been trying to control the robust vine so it won’t overpower the delicate honeysuckles.

The Field