Veggies Galore

I'm about over this garden. Truthfully, I haven't weeded it in weeks! It's a complete mess right now. I'm alittle bothered by it, I really need to get out there. Maybe this weekend.

Here's a pic from a few weeks ago.

My romaine lettuce, green beans, cherry tomatoes, and summer squash.

Recently to become ripe.... my eggplant! Yum. I didn't grow this last year so I wasn't sure how it would do, but all 3 plants are thriving! This is the 1st eggplant I picked, I grilled it with tomatoes, and peppers.



Saw this recipe from Bobby Flay on All recipes.com website.
It was super yummy!




More recently, My giant mess of tomatoes. Geez.
I've been putting tomatoes into everything.
-pureed and put into mac and cheese
-pureed and put into alfredo sauce
-salsa
-sandwiches
-raw
-fried green
etc, etc.

Pretty much we're eating them with every meal.


Mmmmm. BLT sandwiches!

Garden Goods

Our 2nd green bean pickings. We took this picking over to my parents house, we were still eating off the 1st batch and I'm not into canning yet. We gave them a banana pepper too, Brad insists that we need 2 banana pepper plants cause we eat them.......uh, Not really. I guess I can try to find ways to eat them though.

Everything is looking pretty good this year. This garden look 100X better than last year. We have had some losses though..... 2 of the 3 cauliflower plants (died), 1 of the 3 collard greens (died), my tomitillo plant (murdered by the hoe/oops).

Things that are growing exceptionally well......squash, tomatoes, green beans, onions, lettuce, eggplant, broccoli and corn.

I'm about to be buried in 2 things..... tomatoes and summer squash. Definitley going to have to spread those among friends and family.

* Phone update: Phone guy came out on Monday. "Fixed it" and we had internet and phone for a whopping 24 hours. Thanks guys, your awesome! When I got home from work yesterday they had the line marked with flags and a message on my answering machine that they will be out within the next 10 days to replace the line. 10 days.......don't rush or anything. This has only been going on for YEARS and I'm pretty sure they already replaced the line since we've been here and that didn't really work but ok.

Earning His Keep

I put this kid to work! He was more than excited to pick the green beans, and he did do most of the picking but I really had to monitor which ones he was going after. He did pretty good and only picked a few that weren't quite ready.

He was so proud of his pickings. I had him then help me wash them, snap them, and cook them! Uh, Is there some kind of child labor law that I need to worry about? Then at dinner time he about ate his weight in green beans :) I think this garden is good for him, he really likes the watering, growing, and harvesting and he eats good because of it. Definitely makes it worth the effort. We're going out again this morning to pick a new batch. Might be giving this one away, we haven't finished eating the 1st batch.


* On another note...........I HATE THE PHONE COMPANY! We've been without the internet again for the last 2 days! Why you ask? Oh, geez, because it rained again. Yeah, that makes sense doesn't it? They've been out here or called every other month since we moved in 5 years ago. Just replace the box at the road already you dummies! How many times are you gonna come here, replace the phone line or give us a new modem?! and then tell us the box at the road is bad? JUST REPLACE THE BOX!!!!!

Planted & Protected

Started working on the garden last week. We've expanded! Never did get Brad talked into raised beds, but that's ok, he really helped out alot this year. He tilled the garden up twice and it's probably doubled in size from last year. It's a nice L shape.

Brad's cousin Breanna was tearing out a bunch of strawberry plants at her new house and she was giving them away so I took 4 BIG bags full. I transplanted them into the new portion of the garden. Some of them really took off but others are looking kinda sad :( Hope they make it, would be great to have fresh strawberries. Wondering if they will have transplant shock and not produce any fruit this season. We'll see I guess!

Got 2 rows of yellow onion planted.



Also planted are 2 rows of spinach and 2 rows of Broccoli. Brad also got the fencing put up, hoping to keep the animals at bay. Also to keep Dane out, he loves to cut, dig, saw, stomp, etc (not good for the plants)

New this year is the sweet corn. Brad has planted 1 row with the intent of planting 1 row every 2 weeks to total 5 rows or so. We'll see how it does and whether we can keep the deer/coons out!