Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Major Update


Besides the fact that in a week I'll finally be graduating from nursing school, my in-laws came in town this weekend from Pennsylvania. That means I've had no time to update this, even though I've spent a lot of time outside, and in the garden a bit. My husband and I worked really hard to get some things done before they got here.

Here's a picture of all of the work my husband did. He dug out all of the dirt here, and helped me plant all of the plants. We have a lot of bulbs and lilies that we planted too, but they'll hopefully be popping up later.



I now have my first tomato blossom! This is from my Sweet 100 Cherry tomato.



The baby birds are growing like crazy! Their mom and dad hate it when I take these pictures, and I inevitably squeal as I run back inside the front door when they dive bomb me.



I'm going to try to show a few side by sides from April 26 to today. In just over a week, I've seen tons of growth.

We were able to build and install the removable structure with bird netting for the strawberry patch. It's loaded with strawberries now, and I have no interest in sharing them with the local birds, bunnies, squirrels, or wandering cat.



















We had our first pea blossom this year, and now we have many!! I was surprised to see it open, because it was pink! Last year we had only white ones, so I assumed that was the only kind. This year we have both, because I planted the Dwarf Gray sugar too.




































































































































I really need to get my pepper, squash, eggplant, watermelon, cantaloupe, and cucumbers in the ground. I'll do all of that today. I have all of these other tomato plants to get to friends, they are really starting to look funky. I don't know if it's just all of the rain, but the rest of my tomato plants really need to get into the ground!





This was last weeks harvest, I missed Harvest Monday this week. I used these radishes in a veggie pizza recipe from Pampered Chef for church. We also ate all of that lettuce in a salad! It's fun to finally get somethings that we can eat from our garden!













4 comments:

  1. Cool, your stuff is doing very well! I saw a baby bird get snatched by a cat yesterday - so, be on the lookout!

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  2. Thanks! I'll keep on the lookout! The nest is above our door frame, but our neighbor lets her cat just roam about, so I'll be watching!

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  3. Hi! I love your garden pictures! You have beautiful vegetables
    My husband and I bought a house 6 months ago and we are building a garden, and trying to landscape. We are so excited about growing our own food too!
    Greetings! :)
    Andrea from California

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  4. Andrea- Thanks! Good luck with your garden, it is definitely an incredibly rewarding thing to start! Thanks for stopping by my blog!

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