I recently showed you all the beginning of our new gardening project. This is the year folks, the year we grow, (hopefully), a large portion of our food!

The garden is doing great, guys, but before I get into all that, I'd like to show you what you can buy with Steem!

Have you heard of the Homesteader's Co-op?! This is a marketplace where Steemians can come together and buy and sell items for Steem, (or other payment methods).

I don't have a ton of SBD set aside, so I haven't had the chance to buy many things yet, but the first purchase I made was from @Papa-Pepper. It's too early to grow the corn just yet, (although we are SUPER excited to do so!), the pepper seeds were only just planted a few days ago, so they haven't had time to come up yet, BUT it is the perfect time to grow our mustard greens! Into the raised bed they went, and look at them popping up all willy-nilly!!

We have two nice rows of these seedlings popping up, and they look great! Some other things we planted are also coming up and growing very well!

Check out the garlic!



Here are some onions! There are a LOT of onions!

Now, I am super excited about the next plants!! We impulse-bought strawberries last time we went to Tractor Supply. Not just ANY strawberries, but PINEBERRIES! We've wanted to try these for years!

Pineberries apparently need a pollinator to go with them: regular red strawberries. I never knew that! The box came with over 10 plants each of pineberries and red strawberries! It ended up being about 25 plants, give or take. Not a bad deal for only $7.99!

They fit nicely into the cinder-block holes, which I think is fantastic!

 
We have other things planted in the bed, including radishes, lettuce, and peas, but they haven't popped up quite yet. So far so good! The only issue I've run into so far is the fact that fire ants have already invaded the bed!! These things are terrible, but I think I have a way to eradicate them, and if it works, Ill share with you all! Fire ants are just the worst...

Now, for fun, here is a photo of the latest project we are working on, which complements our raised-bed garden perfectly. Any guesses what this is for?

Hint: it rhymes with bomb-toasting with mirth-germs... :D