Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Garden Time


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Our little helper AJ loves to harvest the veggies from the garden with Daddy and Grandpa

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Bringing some red peppers to the bowl to bring back in the house. 

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Putting the veggies with the other ones they picked. 

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Meanwhile, this little girl was being a cutie in the door. 

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One of my absolute favorite pictures of her. 

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Her best friend joined her. 

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Two peas in a pod. 

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Our garden helper representing Mommy's college, Assumption College while harvesting.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

How Does Your Garden Grow?

AJ and Grandpa are part of our success for our garden this year!  Grandpa takes good care of all of our vegetable plants and is showing AJ how to help pick the fruit of their labor.

Picking cucumbers


Taking a break from the back-breaking task of picking the garden.

AJ getting the bowl ready to gather all of the green beans. 

Monday, July 14, 2014

Giant Zucchini

Daddy picked a couple of zucchinis from the garden today.  I think he might have left them on the plants a little too long... this one was almost as big as AJ!



Sunday, May 25, 2014

Rototilling

Even though it was my birthday and we were celebrating, Michael couldn't resist rototiling the garden on a beautiful day.  I guess a nice garden was part of my present?! haha

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Working the rototiller on the Kubota tractor

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A beautiful wide angle view of our backyard.  I love living here!  (And look at that dark rich soil!)

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Garden Clean Up

This morning Daddy decided to clean up the garden with his two helpers, Grandpa and AJ.  Timber even tried to help a little!

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Timber was more interested in the camera while AJ was trying to figure out what was on his hand.

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The garden clean up crew.

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Daddy showing AJ how to put the dead plants in the bucket.

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Getting some plants to put in the bucket.

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On his way...

Friday, July 12, 2013

Fruits of Daddy's Labor

It's been one heck of a challenge with the garden this summer.  Because of the crazy humidity and then days of rain in the very beginning, we weren't sure how our plants were going to fare.  We've had to replace a bunch of cucumber and pepper plants, yet our green beans, eggplant and brussel sprouts seem to be flourishing. I'm hoping our yellow squash pull through, but as of now it looks like we might only have one or two plants at the most even though Michael has planted about 8 or so plants.  We're keeping our fingers crossed and hoping our veggies pull through because nothing beats a fresh-picked vegetable from the garden on a warm summer day!!

Some of the 'fruits' of Michael's hard work.. yummy sweet orange cherry tomatoes, 
green beans and a cubanelle pepper!

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

In Bloom!

One of the many squash blooms we have in our garden!  We cannot wait for our home-grown veggies!




Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Ripe Strawberry!

When we went out to check the strawberry plants today, this is what we found... a ripe strawberry!  And boy, was it yummy!


We have a couple more coming too!




Monday, May 27, 2013

Strawberry Patch

Michael's 'Uncle' Connie gave us some strawberry plants last year at the end of the season that we planted in our circular garden area on the side of our house.  We were anxious to see if they would grow and blossom this year and to our surprise.. they did!! I cannot wait until they ripen and we can eat some home-grown strawberries!

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Watermelon!

We finally cracked open one of the many watermelons we grew in our garden this summer.  It was so juicy and absolutely delicious - I wish we could have a garden year-round!


Friday, August 10, 2012

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Fresh....

...from the Garden!  Michael has been hard at work keeping up the garden and it finally has started to pay off!  We got our first yellow beans of the season!


Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Plant Update!

It's been decided - the greenhouse is amazing! The seeds Michael and I planted a few weeks back have been doing so well that we're already thinking about doing a second round of cucumbers and summer squash (since one can never have enough!).  Since our first planting though, we have added jalapeno, habanero, hot yellow and sweet orange peppers, watermelons, roma, beefsteak and plum tomatoes, dill, scallions and sugar snap peas to the mix. 

Luckily, Michael expanded our garden this year and almost doubled it in size - otherwise, we would be in trouble and not have enough room to plant everything!  We're hoping to have good weather this weekend so we can put the new plastic down and begin to transplant some of the first seeds we started growing.  

Based on the progress of everything so far, I think I'll have my hands full this summer with canning and pickling (not to mention a little one!)!

Look at that progress!

One of us must have a green thumb for all of these seeds to be sprouting!

Lettuce

Marketmore cucumbers

Greenbeans.. yummy in my tummy!

Pickling cukes

Summer squash

Close-up of the celery


Sunday, May 1, 2011

Pots and Pets, Oh My!

Today, Michael and I planted some vegetable seeds in the hope that we won't have to buy the majority of the plants for our garden this year.  We have a nice greenhouse in our backyard that allows us to get a head start on our garden and is currently protecting all the pots from the somewhat cold temps we've been having at night.  If all goes well, we will have cherry tomatoes, green beans, pickling cucumbers, marketmore cucumbers, summer squash and cilantro (for our homemade salsa!).  We also planted some lettuce right outside the greenhouse because supposedly lettuce produces better in the cold temps.  Michael and I are keeping our fingers crossed that the seeds catch on...  here's hoping!!
The greenhouse

Our seeds in their pots

The lettuce area
While Michael and I were busy planting the seeds, our pets were living the life and relaxing! 

Timber

Porter