~ Our Garden ~

June 2010

We got to harvest some swiss chard.

Gracie got our first strawberry of the season!


New potatoes, green peppers, cherry tomatoes and one zucchini squash.

The zucchini started off good but now I am not sure. The zucchini plant is producing but they only get to a small size and then die off.


The cherry tomatoes are doing awesome.

May 2010

I wanted to post a garden update.... everything has sprouted up and is really starting to come along and take form. Here is a quick peek at what we have going on. I cant wait to start enjoying all those goodies we have grown. I was so excited to see green tomatoes oh how I love them. I was tempted to pick them and make a batch of Fried Green Tomatoes. It was so hard but I left them alone. There will be plenty of time for that later.

The green beans and zucchini are doing beautifully.

An apple!!! we were real worried about our apple tree. It was getting to big for the planter that we started it out in. So last year we replanted the apple tree in the front yard. With all the snow and ice we received we were not sure if the tree would survive. Slowly but surly greenery then little white flowers appeared. Now a few apples I know it might be a while before we can enjoy them but this is a great site to see.

The Tomatillos are flowering and the potatoes are sprouting like crazy. This is our first year for potatoes. Fingers crossed they keep doing good and grow.

We have strawberries!!! I a so happy to see them, i got kind of worried about them from the snow storm but everything managed to survive since we protected everything.

I even got started a bit in the front yard on planting some Zinia's. I love Zinia's in all sorts of colors especially how they attract butterflies. Now if i could just keep the neighbor hood cats away from them. They seem to love rubbing up on all my flowers. I thnk i tried moth balls last year but that didn't work, so if anyone has any ideas to keep the cats out of the flower beds please let me in on the secret. We dont mind them visiting i just dont want them laying in the flower bed playing with the flowers.

I am hoping to get some more flowers planted in the back yard and finish up the front. Slowly but surely I will get it done. We did find a great deal on some Jasmine plants so we planted two last weekend and they smells so fragrant. Lets hope Freeway our chocolate lab leaves them bee. We have them in our fenced off area, but he is really good at nosing around and using his paws to get them through the fence.

March 13 - 2010

March is here and its time to post my garden update. We usually already have our seeds and vegetable plants in the ground. But Texas had a freak snowfall of 12 inches so we are a bit late on planting this year. Our garden seems to be growing in size every year. I think this is just about all the space we can find. We really need to move out to the country so we can have a garden as big as we want. "What a Dream" but someday it will come true.

We added another 4 x 4 foot section next to our exsisting vegetable garden for just Strawberries. Last winter our Chocolate Lab Freeway dug up all the strawberry plants we had. I was so bummed we had quite a few and they were multiplying like crazy.


The rabbit fencing really seems to help. So far Freeway hasn't tried to jump over it. That dog is so nosey he sometimes sticks his paws in and pulls things out with his mouth. If anything he is persistant.

Here is our existing vegetable garden its about 4 x 16 feet with lots of yummy things in our future. Here is a list of what we planted this year.

Zucchini, Green Beans, Chard
Purple Onions, Yellow Onions, Garlic
Tomatillos, Poblano Peppers, Green Bell Peppers
Jalapenos, Tomatoes and Potatoes.

We might try and plant some pumpkins in a fenced off area on the side of the house. We just are not sure if it will get enough light. If we do we need to get the seeds planted very soon. We have a blueberry and blackberry bush so we will see if they reproduce and come back. We also have a apple tree but it hasn't produced anything yet. We plan on going apple picking this year if the crops were not destroyed. (fingers crossed) they weren't. I would love to get a good amount of apples for fall/winter.

DH planted some potatotes in a huge pot. We will see how they take. And that is it thats what we planted for the year. I will be updating my garden posts as everything grows in.


Garden 2009

7-19-09 More tomatoes and peppers!!! Just picked them and getting ready to start making some Green Tomato Relish.

7-6-09
Everything is coming in so fast.......... Green Bell Peppers, Jalapeno Peppers, Tabasco Peppers, Chili Peppers and look at all those pickling cukes!!!

6-16-09
Green bell peppers are coming in. Almost ready to be picked but not quite yet.


I spy raspberries!!!

6-16-09
Our first tomatoes!!!! Looks like it is time to make fried green tomatoes.

Yeah we get to harvest some things. Look at all those onions!!! we have some lettuce and garden beans blanched and ready to go into the freezer.

Cucumbers are coming along great.

Lettuce

lots of carrots.


our first tomatoes are starting to show.


pickling cucumbers are starting to flower up.

5-14-09

I spy the first raspberry of the season.

Now its coming along. 4-18-09

The mint is coming along nicely.

4-18-09 Our First Rose!!!

Slowly but surely things are starting to pop up.


A peach!!!

Garden Beans and the raspberry bush is starting to come along.

The surviving strawberries from the wrath of Freeway!!! That dog dug them all up. Hopefully they will start to multiply again.

March 30th 2009

I see some things starting to sprout up!! yeah

March 2009
(A bit of a Garden Upgrade)

We finally got to extend our vegetable garden out a bit. Actually we doubled it in size from last year. I think all the frost and cold weather is finally behind us (fingers crossed), so it was time to get out in the dirt and start the garden. It is so fun to grow so many vegetables and to enjoy eating all of them when they finally all grow in. The kids get so excited going out everyday to see what has grown and come in. They love picking everything and bringing in the house. Last year seem to be a bad year for our tomatoes, so I am hoping this year will be better. We had to put up a taller fence this year. Our Chocolate Lab seems to think he can jump in and out at any time. Freeway has about dug up all the strawberry plants we had last year, I think we only had about 2 that survived his digging and chewing, so i am hoping they will start to multiply again this year. I know it doesn't look like much right now but just imagine in a couple months how pretty it will look. This is what we have planted this year.

Tomatoes
Green & Yellow Bell Peppers
Green Beans
Green Onions
Raspberries
Strawberries
Jalapenos
Chili Pepper
Lettuce
Pickling Cucumbers
Carrots

~ Our Garden 2008 ~

Impatience, Marigolds & Zinia's Mackenzie spotted a Black & Yellow Butterfly on one of the Zinia's.
We were so surprised when it hung around long enough to grab the camera.

I know it doesn't seem like much but its ours. Our dream is to have a Country Log Cabin in East Texas with a couple acres so we can plant whatever we want. Until then this is it. The kids love their garden and look so forward to going out every morning to what has started to grow. Carson's favorite are the "Strawberries" thank goodness they are multiplying each each year

Our Raised Bed Garden we planted:

Strawberries
Cherry Tomatoes
Watermelon

The Strawberries are coming along nicely.

Here are some of our first tomatoes and peppers.

Our Watermelons are finally coming in 8-6-08

8-6-08