Garden Happiness(es)

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Garden Happiness(es)

Garden Happiness(es)

The first pie pumpkinThe first (ever) acorn squashI love the texture in this bed...Sunflowers, tomatoes and acorn squashAshes made her way outside, Bo was not happy about it...Baby tomatoes...not suffering from butt rotThe first lemon cucumber...the previous few mysteriously disappeared...The first bush snap peaThe first rain water harvest!!!Silly puppies AKA Mika & Mr. peeking past the not-so-tall sweet cornAnother Orb…
July 26, 2011
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
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
Garden Happiness(es)

Garden Happiness(es)

Round two of the snap peas is much smaller than Round One, but we already have a few flowers and one actual pea :-)The Blue Corn is coming along nicely!  This is my first year trying this variety...my fingers are officially crossed!All of the tomatoes I started from seed in one of our raised beds are turning into giants and…
June 23, 2011
Garden Happiness(es)

Garden Happiness(es)

How many flowers can there possibly be on one tomato plant?!?The second planting of snap peas is coming along nicely!Cutting lettuce growing in the shade under the tree in the front yard.Cucumber seedlings!  Straight Eights!  YAY!One massive tomato plant, a peeking basil and a hoard of carrots!The lettuce is finally going to seed/bolting!Lemon Cucumbers!  You can't see the flowers in…
June 16, 2011