Cooking and Gardening and Eating, oh my!

As I have had requests to post some of my favorite recipes on my other blog: Displaced Momma, I decided to start up a whole new blog. So I welcome you to Tastefully Tempting! I will try to tempt you with mouthwatering recipes and also chronicle my 3rd garden. In fact, the garden is what I will be talking about in this post...

It's that time of year again. Time to start planning and plotting (literally) the lovely spot where I will have my vegetable garden. This is my first time growing one since we have moved into our current house (with a smaller backyard), so we have really had to mull this over.

I started out by heading to the library and picking up my favorite gardening book: Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew. I have checked this book out so many times that after returning it two weeks ago (and of course remembering something that I needed to look up AFTER it was returned)-my hubby said "You might as well just buy a copy-it's an investment". And he's right, it is an investment! So I got on Amazon and bought myself the "All New Square Foot Gardening" also by Mr. Bartholomew (it was a whole dollar more than the "old" book). I just love this book, it does a great job of helping me get the most plants out of the smallest space. I plotted out my garden using copies of the helpful grids at the back of the book.

I then bought my seeds. I was a little frustrated over this fact, as I had (emphasis on the had) a great supply of seeds up until this winter when a couple of mice decided to take up residence in our garage and found our seed supply "tastefully tempting". So, all new seeds it was. Then came one of my favorite parts of gardening-getting dirty! My two kids and I put on old shirts and planted seeds in starting soil placed in egg cartons and yogurt cups. My kitchen window looks like a recycling center right now with all of those mismatched containers, but it's the best place for the sun at this time. Yesterday brought another one of my favorite parts of gardening-we have plants! The marigolds we planted in the egg carton are sprouting up nicely. The kids (and this big kid, too) were so excited to see something we helped bring to life!

I will keep you posted on how my garden grows (pardon the pun-my name isn't even Mary!), and will post the next delectable recipe I make. As I mentioned, this blog is about eating, too-so I aim to please!