Monday, January 3, 2011

2011 Garden Theme - Baby Garden

After a year of bad garden juju in 2010, we are particularly excited to greet a new year at the South Sound Garden.  Last year's weather led such garden disappointment we stopped posting altogether in disgust!  But all the time not spent in a depressing garden gave us a little time to attend to other things:
We are tickled pink to be expecting a baby girl in late February.  Since babies aren't candidates for solid food until they're about 6 months, and even then very simple veggies and grains, we're planning to plant baby-friendly produce and freeze whatever gets harvested before she can eat. The good news is many baby-friendly favorites are easy to grow (even in a crappy year!)

Baby-Friendly Veggies
Carrot
Parsnip
Peas
Pumpkin
Potato
Squash
Zucchini

Baby Friendly Fruits Already Growing in SSG
Apples
Berries
Cherries
Plums

We picked up this book from Williams Sonoma on cooking for baby and it has a lot of good tips on what/when/how.

Happy New Year!


Amanda

5 comments:

  1. Congrats on the little one! Can't wait to hear about your adventures in gardening and mothering. :-)

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  2. Such a sweet post! Can't wait to hear about the adventures. Radish

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  3. yea! congrats!! what a great idea, to reserve some veggies for the baby...baby food really is easy to make with the right blender & freezer/canning stuff. i hope you are feeling well!

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  4. Heidi,
    Knock on wood - I have been very lucky and feeling pretty good so far! However at almost 33 weeks the sheer girth is starting to wear on me a bit. Maybe this is just a phase? Your girls are getting so big!! You must be having a ball. I love all the cute little things the kiddos say!

    Amanda

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  5. Yay to baby garden goodness! Can't wait to see the posts about homemade babyfood!

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