Tuesday, August 30, 2011

My garden!!

I just wanted to post these pictures really quick. I've been so busy between work and gardening. My house is not very clean, dishes aren't done, laundry is washed, but not usually folded, and poor McKinley still doesn't have clothes or shoes for school!! I'll have to remedy that last one tomorrow.
Here's what I've been doing:

All those beans are bottled now. I've got 35 quarts so far. I need to get outside and pick again today. I'm hoping to get up to 80 quarts and then I'll split them 50/50 with my next door neighbor who helps me pick and who paid for half the seed.

Bean plants and carrots. I planted a lot of beans!!!

My yellow squash came on after the zucchini, so now I have a bunch of yellow squash and not a whole ton of zucchini. But still too much to eat every night. Made some delicious chocolate zucchini bread the other day. Yum!!! Oh, and that big green thing on the left-that is zucchini. Its a plant that was a volunteer in my pea patch. But they grow like that instead of long and skinny. We don't eat them, they are just fun to see.
I got my first ears of corn last saturday. They were yummy.
The tomatoes are starting to ripen. I call the tomato plants "monstrous nightmares" because they are so big and out of control!!
I'm very proud of my garden and go out to check everything once a day. Its a lovely feeling to be able to eat out of your own garden. We've been eating red potatoes and using the onions as well.
Until next time........whenever that will be.

1 comment:

  1. Grandpa Great would LOVE to see those pictures...can you send me via e-mail a copy?
    We will show him when we leave to the beach house next week. How wonderful that you are doing such wonderful gardening. Wish we could get things to grow here!! Perhaps next year we will try grow boxes!! Love you farmer Hill girl...give kisses to those babies for me!!
    Love, Mom

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