You may have already read about our potato, zucchini and strawberry adventures in the Grow Bags. We have harvested the potatoes and zucchinis and the bags are ready for growing season part 2!

This time, I am planting peas, beets, kale, carrots and arugula. Check it out from my instagram! And if you aren’t following me on Instagram, go do that now. <3

The peas I wasn’t sure about. The last time I saw peas in the garden I must have been about 10 or 11. Yeah, that’s a bit ago. But I always remembered being able to pluck those suckers off the vine and eat them right out of the pea sack, or whatever they are called. Yummy!

Here are the beets in the bag. Not sure when I am supposed to harvest them, but I dig down into the dirt every now and then to see how big they’ve gotten. I think it will still be a bit (it is end September right now) but check out that foliage.

And here we have the carrots and the arugula. Both grown from seeds and I think emptying the entire envelope of carrot seed into the 2×2 grow bag was not a wise idea. I had to thin out many carrots. Made me sad to toss away all those babies. And. Found out that slugs like carrots. So gross. First interlopers into my grow bag garden. Scissors took care of them. Snip Snip!

Last but not least is the kale! Check out those kale chips! All natural, no pesticides, so flavourful.

The recipe for the kale chips is pretty simple. 1 red pepper, 1/4 c nooch, 1/2 c of soaked cashews, some onion powder, garlic powder, dash of cayenne. Cut all the stems off the kale, wash it, dry it and massage some olive oil into them. Make them small pieces. Blend it all in a blender then put the kale in the dehydrator for 12 hours or you can put them in a toaster oven or your regular oven. Not for 12 hours though. Yeah, don’t do that.

What an exciting year this has been. Full of process. Full of time. Yes, some work but it wasn’t laborious. Definitely a labour of love.