Now that my garden is actually growing and we're even harvesting food from it (!) I'm already thinking about next year.

For instance, I always wondered why school sports teams sell horse manure. Why oh why would you want any? Did you know that it is one of the best fertilizers? All that nice manure mixed with all the organic matter that horses eat and the straw from their stalls? BEAUTIFUL stuff I'm telling you! I'm keeping an eye out for the sales to start.

And I was worried that my garden this year was far too big. And now that I've separated my beets and the leeks are looking like they need more room I'm eyeing up my mum's yard for more gardening room. Andrew's been ordered to build me several raised beds for more gardening.

And I've been looking at online seed catalogs.

Tonight we're eating new potatoes fresh from the garden with broccoli, peas and strawberries. All picked 20 minutes ago from OUR garden! wow. Next year I want the lettuce and radishes to be ours too. I want beans. And more varieties of squash. More strawberries. And my own raspberries and blue berries. Oh, and three broccoli plants were no where near enough. I only bought them to please Tink, but oh goodness fresh broccoli is delightful!