Jack Frost has finally taken his summer vacation! As gardeners around the country start to sink their hands into the soil, She Considers, is hosting the annual From Seeds to Harvest Garden Challenge (previously hosted by Teaching Good Things).

Whether you are an avid gardener or more of a fair weather planter, join our challenge and watch as seeds across the nation, and even around the world,  turn into a harvest.

Here is the challenge:

1) Plant something.

From tomatoes to squash, basil to eggplant! If it’s got roots, it counts!*

*Trees excluded for the sake of sanity, thank you for your understanding.

2) Take a picture and post it on your blog, (if you don’t blog send us the picture!) even if it is only one pot. Never despise meager beginnings! Use Linky Tools below to share your garden with the rest of us.

Blog about:

• -your experience with past/present gardens or specific plants.
• -how you use your harvest (canning, recipes, etc…)
• - how you deal/dealt with pest.
• -fertilizing, organic alternatives or irrigation methods.

3) Link back to our current From Seeds to Harvest post.

We will post on Fridays about our From Seeds to Harvest Challenge. We will use Mr. Linky so all of you can share your information and we can encourage each other. You may link through Linky Tools or leave a comment at any time during the week. It would be best if we would all chime in at least a couple times a month. Your link must be to your Seeds to Harvest post.

If you don’t want to link up, just leave a comment…I love comments!

Please don’t be embarrassed to post about your dead tomato plant or shriveled lettuce, we can learn from your mistakes and someone may be able to identify your problem! Every good gardener has killed a plant or two in their time!

July through August we will also discuss recipes and preserving, again posting pictures and/or your garden journal, using Linky Tools so we can follow each others progress.

Giveaways!
Now for the juicy stuff! Everyone that takes part in this From Seeds to Harvest Gardening Challenge, will have their name entered for a drawing at the end of each month beginning in June, running through September. You must post about your garden at least once a month to be entered for that month’s prize!!! Even if it was less than successful. I would greatly appreciate it if you would add the From Seeds to Harvest button to your website, so all our friends and be friends.

The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants… and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:12