Wednesday, August 4, 2010

It's Exploded!! No fertilizer, only compost!

tomatoes

sweet potatoes
strawberries
rhubarb
small pumpkins
raspberries
pumpkin patch
oregano
lavender
pumpkin about 12 inches accross
too many tomatoes

the "new" composter
carrots
cantaloupe
butternut squash
eaten by bugs brussels sprouts
broken path into garden
blueberry hut
beets
basil
asparagus
zucchini, acorn squash, butternut squash and cantaloupe, just a big mess of vines!

Not only has the herb garden taken off, but the vegetables are awesome. Delicious. Emma is a good weed puller, not so efficient, but she's good at it anyway. She takes her shoes off at the gate and runs around the garden barefoot. Helping where she can. She is a really great tomato picker. The plants are apparently a little close together and she can squeeze right in there and get the ripe ones out! She knows what almost everything is and already assumes she isn't going to like them, before trying them. Someday she'll eat them, promise.

It is so close to being an organic garden. The brussels sprouts were getting eaten, so I gave in and bought a bug spray, I really want brussels. We brought in a ton of tomatoes, I think we're going to can some salsa, jalapeno peppers, green peppers, carrots, the one and only lonely watermelon, an acorn squash, some beets, the rest of the onions and scallions. Oh, and those possible beans, probably weeds, were definitely weeds. I tried to plant beans 3 times and nothing. For August, I'm going to plant peas, lettuce and spinach. I also want to start an indoor herb garden!

Been So Busy July 12th, 2010

Who has time to write all these blogs when they’re busy gardening. These pics are for a couple of weeks ago. I’ll get some more this week because it’s totally bloomed since the pics were taken.

In order: Radishes, Scallions, Raspberries,

Jalapeno peppers, asparagus, carrots

Brussel s sprouts, new raspberries, pumpkin

Zucchini, zucchini, spinach

Sweet potato, butternut squash, tomato

Possible beans (probably weeds), rhubarb, tomato

Strawberries, rooster, overview of garden

Blueberries, blueberries, emma

Upclose blueberries and em picking blues!