Garden Progress

Well, the garden this year has been interesting. Once again a good learning experience and we are another year wiser. This is the first year that we have had an issue with bugs. Not too bad, considering we have gardened for three years. However, they sure did make up for lost time! They ate all of my pea plants except one and went crazy on the green peppers.

We also realized that our neighbors trees along their fence may be getting a trim next year, whether they like it or not, since they are overgrown and are providing too much shade over our garden spot. (They are having over are fence by quite a bit.) Consequently, we have not had as many green peppers this year and they are really small due to lack of sun. This has resulted in the fact that we won't be canning salsa this year. This is fine considering the amount we have left over from last year that is waaaaaaay too hot to distribute to others.

What was really interesting is that we have a rogue cucumber plant that I grew from seed, literally! It wrapped itself around some tomato plants, melon plants, and corn. Consequently, it got hacked back, but has produced a large amount of cucumbers. Don't worry they have all been used by myself and a friend of mine who is into the veggie juicing thing . . . YUCK!

What we are most proud of is the sweet corn. We were impressed with how tall it got, especially when looking at other people's corn.

We actually harvested a couple of ears the other night and other than the little black bugs on the husks, they looked really good. No earwigs and were pretty good sized. They even tasted pretty good and Jim liked them, which is the true test.

Things That Make Me Happy

Here are a few things that make me happy, because they indicate warmer weather is coming:

We went to Bear World for their opening day and got to pet baby bears. They were adorable!

The animals in the petting zoo were a little skiddish after having a winter off from people being around them. These poor deer were completely overwhelmed by the little kids running around trying to pet them.

Grow little seedlings, grow! I figure if for whatever reason I can't be in partnership with God to create any further human life, I might as well be in partnership to create plant life. Not only do I enjoy working in the dirt, but also enjoy knowing where my food is coming from and the taste of it all. I also like knowing that I help with the family budget a little as well. Hopefully, this year will be better than last year! I have the entire garden planted except tomotatoes. (Don't ask me how I missed buying those seeds. grrrrrrr) Those I'll get to this weekend and then it just a matter of sitting and waiting.

Gotta Love This Time of Year!

I got to eat my first garden tomato today!! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Frankenchini

Check these out!!

To give you a reference.

What's interesting is that in talking to our neighbors, they have told us that they haven't hardly had anything grow in their gardens this year. I don't know how we lucked out, but we are grateful that we did. We will be sharing the bounty since we are definitely done with zucchini and are waiting to see how the tomatoes go.

Those Jalepenos Sure Look Big

A week ago Jim came in from looking at the garden and stated that the jalapenos looked awfully big and maybe we should start picking them. I told him to not worry about it, but I would get to them as soon as I could.

Today I went out to look at the tomatoes and decided to look at the jalapenos as well. They really did look big, so I thought I would take a closer look. Yikes! Those aren't jalapenos, they are green peppers!!! Someone switched the tags on the plants.

This is especially funny since just a couple of weeks ago I told Jim how I wished I had planted bell peppers.

It all works out since I will use both for salsa, and bell peppers are more expensive than jalapenos.

Remember our little garden?

Remember our little garden that I posted a picture of in June? Well, here it is now.



Do you think we will have enough tomatoes? LOL

Zucchini Anyone?

I just harvested these today and the plants are still blooming and growing more! I hope we get our freezer soon or I am in big trouble!

There May Be Hope!!!

There may be hope yet for our little plants that we planted!!! I noticed that one of the blackberry plants has a small flower on it.

Our tomato plants seemed to have recovered from the windstorm and a couple of zucchini are hanging on, but I've lost most of them.

It doesn't look like much, but hopefully with time it will. Every year we are planning on making it better and more sophisticated. i.e. a raised bed But for now, we just do what we can afford and then try to add on each year. We'll see how this year goes.