Garden Happiness(es)

Garden Happiness(es)

The beginnings of a jalapeno!This bed is 4 feet wide & the fence behind it is 6 feet tall.  This means, officially, that our tomatoes are out of control.Buddha hanging out with the blue corn .How can something so green bring one so much happiness???Bush snap peaAnother bush snap pea (flower).  They're just so pretty!The first sunflower!!!!!Lettuce figuring out how…
July 20, 2011
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!!!This weeks harvest was very exciting because it was another first for us!  We harvested all our onions!!!We also had our first harvest of our second round of spinach!  While a few of the plants have gone to seed already, most of them are quite happy in the shade!This weeks totals:Onions - 8 pounds*Spinach - 2 ouncesCarrots -…
July 18, 2011
Ummm…Gross!

Ummm…Gross!

I have said before that everything in the garden is not always wonderful or pretty.  Sometimes there are mutant toes, sometimes crops fail, sometimes the creatures take over, sometimes things are just plain gross.  Each evening when I get home from work I do a walk through of the yard.  I love to see how big each veggie/plant has grown…
July 16, 2011
Garden Happiness(es)

Garden Happiness(es)

Hilled up potatoes!A corner of our back yardFantastic sunset shot from the back yardChickens like beets :-)The Butternut Squash is starting to run!Snap Peas and beans starting the long climb!Beans make for a pretty cover cropSpinach (second planting) under a tree in the front yardMint and a transplanted tomato...couldn't tell you what kind it is though...it will just have to…
July 13, 2011
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!!!  This week wasn't as fruitful as I'd hoped it might be, but I'm still happy with the harvest...Mint = 1 ounceI've decided to keep on top of the harvesting and drying of our mint this year, so the plan is to snip a little each weekend in addition to the regular leaf here and there to add…
July 11, 2011