Garden again July

The empty squares have been dug up by the cat!!

I LOVE the pumpkins growing up the trellis.

That pumpkin is soooo cool.

vertical gardening

tomatoes and peppers and onions

Carrots

Potatoes, cucumbers, peas, and flowers.  Also some random corn Jimmy Joe planted.

Look at that corn, squash, and melons.

Isabelle and her sunflower

My first 2 cucumbers

Garden UP and UP

My garden is doing a great job at growing!!  I did damage it a little with some bug spray, but I think it will keep growing.  We love to water the garden together.  It's a great morning activity together.  I even started a compost pile.  Bobby is keeping it nice. 

The corn is looking great.  It's growing in stages so I will have corn for weeks when harvest comes.  The tomatoes are looking great; even the ones I started from seed are starting to grow well.  I am learning a lot about how to make my garden better next year.  I will start my tomatoes inside earlier, and my squash, and melons, and peppers too.  I want to plant my potatoes in buckets instead of in the garden itself, and I want to have a container of strawberries, some raspberries and such things.

I HATE CATS!!  The neighborhood wild cats are ruining my lettuce and spinach.  Everyday I go out and they have used a new spot as their litter box.  I've got to think of something or I won't have any spinach and lettuce left! 

I am very excited about my garden.  I hope it all continues to grow. 

Beans

Carrots

Big tomatoes

cucumbers, peas, and potatoes

my corn, squash and melon box



middle row of everything



little corn and zucchini, and summer squash and melons

butternut squash growing up the trellis

cherry tomatoes, see the burnt leaves

look at that zucchini

Growing!!!

lettuce

Oh, my garden is growing!!!  I'm still so excited about the whole thing.  I love to walk out and look at it, and pick the little weeds out of the boxes.  I can't stand that my beans and peas are all dying.  I don't know what to do.  I'm about ready to start over, and plant something else in those boxes.  I get sad just looking at them.  But, all the rest are doing great!!!  I'm so excited.  In a few weeks, I'll be able to clip my lettuce and make a salad.  YEA!!!!

squash, mellons, broccoli, and corn

Do you see my beans dying?

tomato and merigolds

Look at that pepper.

potatos and cucumbers

carrots

potatoes down the middle, cucumbers on the side, and
dying peas

Corn

zuchinni

brocolli

summer squash (Dad bought them for me)

Garden Update 2.0

The 2.0 is just for my husband!!!!  Look at my garden grow.  The potatoes are up, the cucumbers are poking through, even my lettuce, spinach are showing their little heads, and the scallions are little hairs growing right up into the air.  Go little plants, GROW!!!

I have replanted my summer squash, and informed my sister Beverly that I'll be over to her house for summer squash early this year.

Garden Story

I have always wanted a garden.  So, this year my husband said, "anything for you dear." and we did it.  I measures and schemed, and came up with an idea that would fit with our house.  Don't worry, I went and got it approved by the community office.  I then went to Home Depot and talked to the great people working there.  I'm telling you that the smell of lumber is nostalgic.  I love that place.  Anyway, I got all the stuff:  lumber (cut into 4 ft., 3 ft, and even 12 ft, lengths), peat moss, compost, vermicilite, screws, and some other stuff.  It took two HUGE loads in Scott's (thanks Scott) truck.  I was a little nervous before we tide it down, but I made it, and Bobby unloaded my project.

Then the real work began.  With my CONSTANT supervision we (and by we I mostly me BOBBY) drilled, screwed, measured, cut, measured again, mixed, watered, mixed some more, and filled in all the wonderful boxed.  Our neighbor came over and helped out; Juan is the best.  They worked into the night, and Juan brought over his spotlight so we wouldn't have to stop.  We finally had to give up for the night and leave it until the morning, although I think Juan could have worked all night.

The  next day we finished the project and I was finally ready to begin my planting.  I know have 4 3x4 boxes, 4 4x4 boxes, and a 3x12 box to plant.  That's a total of 146 beautiful squares!!!  I have planted cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, beans, carrots,butternut squash, zuchinni, yellow summer squash (that Jimmy Joe pulled up the other day and I have to start over), spinach, lettuce, salad mix lettuce, scallions, peas, green and red peppers, watermellon, pumpkin, and some flowers.  I'm having soooo much fun.  Thank you for my wonderful Mother's Day Present that keeps on giving!!!!

Mother's Day

I had a great Mother's Day.  I got my own new, shiny garden.  My husband and our neighbor have been working on it yesterday and today.  It's beautiful.  I went and got everything we needed; thanks Scott for the truck.  And I directed, and sometimes even helped put it all together.  But, MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND did most of the work.  I'll post pictures as soon as I can, but it is a beautiful sight.