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Harvest Monday!!!

Harvest Monday!!!

Happy Monday, everyone!This week brought more tomatoes (thank goodness), the last of (the second round of) spinach, a couple of carrots and a few more snap peas......and the very first summer squash of the year!!!Yay for a little variety (even though I didn't get pictures of everything)!!! This weeks totals:Snap Peas = 4 ouncesTomatoes = 14 ouncesCarrots = 2 ouncesSpinach…
August 1, 2011
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
Harvest Monday!!!

Harvest Monday!!!

This was an exciting week!  We harvested our first, second, third, fourth and fifth tomatoes!  That's right, a total of 5 tomatoes in one week!  Looks like all the patience has paid off and I couldn't be happier!  These are Yellow Taxi Tomatoes and are super yummy.  The skins are a little thick, but that's to be expected here.  We've…
July 25, 2011
The First Tomato!!!

The First Tomato!!!

We harvested our first tomato yesterday evening!!!  A Yellow Taxi weighing in at 2 whole ounces!!!It may be small, but it sure is beautiful!!!
July 21, 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