The garden has shown a modicum of progress since the 4th of July.
PB and I went to weed and water yesterday and we picked: One Roma tomato, one jalapeno, four cherry tomatoes and four strawberries. PB quickly devoured the cherry tomatoes and the strawberries were split between PB and Jellybean. It feels nice to feed them from the fruits of my labor.
We will see how long they think this is cool. I am going to ride that wave! Happy Summer!!
Happy 4th of July to all who choose to celebrate! The heat is starting to crank up the garden progress. We are already ahead of last year….or so I hope.
PB’s strawberries (that I was very skeptical of) are actually producing fruit. And she stated they were DELICIOUS. If these plants survive the summer I may actually try to over-winter them with some straw.
The main garden has produced a single (and beautiful) large jalapeno. I plan to dice this up for taco night this coming week. Not all my family members like jalapeno but maybe they will try a tiny bite that doesn’t have seeds.
Now I am off to shoot some fireworks with Jellybean and my Dad because we are ALL children when it comes to the 4th. Also, hopping for a really good and properly cooked s’mores
Happy 4th!!
With the garden bed all fixed up, I took an evening to get my garden planted!
I ended up choosing two types of large tomatoes, one cherry tomato, one bell pepper, one jalapeno and some marigolds for natural bug repellant.
I also put in an herb garden with chives, basil, rosemary, thyme and parsley.
And for PB, we are trying strawberries. I don’t have high hopes but it is worth a try.
And my favorite items planted were these cool flowers for my fence planters. Now I just need to keep all this alive!
Happy Gardening!!
I have been putting off repairing the garden bed for like a whole year. And this past weekend was beautiful so I decided to take care of this task. And it wasn’t that bad!
Jellybean helped me and I used big power tools and everything! We took out the old wall and reshaped the dirt in order to build back both new corner posts and attach the new wall boards.
And now I get to put plants in the dirt! Not to mention I won’t have to mow around that wall that hung out over the grass.
Happy Summer!!
My garden finally woke up and we have started harvesting tomatoes!
The small ones are little Roma tomatoes that I am washing and freezing for sauce and recipes later this winter. The big slicer is destined for BLTs this week! We may get precious little before fall freeze so I am going to watch carefully!
Happy Monday!
Our garden has been a little slow this year with unseasonably cool spring that immediately shifted to boiling hot summer. Everything is plodding along but we picked our first produce, a very health zucchini!
I should have a second squash in a week or so. Our yellow squash plant is not far behind but it has more blooms that is spreading out the resources of the plant. Our tomatoes are LONG way from producing. I guess we will have to be patient, lol.
Happy Gardening!!
The hubs and I have been completely ignoring the garden assuming it was done for the summer. And we happened to poke around the foliage and found some surprise tomatoes!
We did know our pepper plants were doing well. We are still harvesting occasional poblanos, lots of jalapenos and some super hot habaneros.
I really really love all the different shades of color we are getting. I think I’m going to let these babies go until first frost, fingers crossed!
Our garden has dwindled down to just one jalapeno plant and one bell pepper plant. We are pretty satisfactorily neglecting both but they seem to be putting out a bumper crop. I filled this bowl in one picking.
We decided to make jalapeno poppers with this go around to see how hot they are. I am just going to slice them open and put in some seasoned cream cheese and wrap the whole situation in bacon. The hubby and I plan to bake half and air fry half to see what happens. We are in a ‘wing it’ kind of mood.
Happy Cooking!!
Between keeping up with a two month old and doing some late summer traveling….we sorta lost track of some of our garden. Our tomatoes and bell peppers aren’t doing diddly squat and worms ate our jalapenos. But wowza our zucchini went nuts and we didn’t notice…..
Here’s my hand for scale….
These were too woody and tough to eat but we made a nice vegetable dice for the deer in the nearby woods, lol. And fingers crossed we can salvage some more produce yet this summer that isn’t ginormous.
My husband and I have been taking turns in the garden this summer. Okay, to be fair he’s done most of the work because Jellybean has been in a “mommy only” phase that has absorbed most of my time. But this morning I snuck out before Jellybean woke up and picked these beauties.
We planted basil, tomatoes, jalapenos, green bell pepper, cherry tomatoes and onions. All but the onions are thriving! I believe we will either have BLTs or fresh chunky garden salsa for supper tonight!
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