Gardening

We worked on wedding the garden area this evening...next up is laying down some weed barrier.

Watermelon from our garden

Flowers Around the House

Flowers Around the House

August-Garden Update

I think the pumpkins are taking over. The garden isn't doing bad. We've picked yellow squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, spinach, buttercup squash. The peppers are just starting to have little peppers on them, I was starting to wonder if they would do anything. They were getting really tall but not producing anything. We have lots of different pumpkins and one watermelon starting to grow so far.

The garden July 8th and August 4th.

My watermelon plant peaking thru the backyard fence, and then in the frontyard... it's almost double in size since the 5th and has 2 watermelons on it, one the size of a football and it wasn't there a week ago.

A few of the vegetables we've picked from the garden to far.


Pumpkin bloom and birdhouse gourd bloom.

The garden and a buttercup squash.

Gavin loves to help pick veggies and water the garden.

So I may actually have a green thumb :)

The garden has had some spinach ready for a while, i just wasn't ready to eat it because I wanted it for salad and haven't had anything else to put with it. Finally last night Gavin helped me pick and wash spinach and lettuce. And we had salad. It was delicious and there is plenty more left. So I think each night we will be having salad with dinner.

Garden

When my parents were here in May we started the garden. Actually my dad started most of it, i just tried to help where I could. Some of the plants I started from seed indoors didn't make it and had to be replanted. Here are some pictures of the garden a month ago and then some from today. Wish I'd taken them from the same angle, but was in a hurry tonight.
2 Squash plants as of today

Lettuce & Spinach as of today... just picked some. I think the spinach has been ready for a while.

Tomato a month ago and today.

Roma tomatoes a month ago and today. There were three tomatoes on it when planted and they've at least doubled in size

Birdhouse Gourd Gavin planted from seed a month ago and today.

Cherry Tomato plant a month ago and today with lots of blooms.

Tomato plant a month ago and today with 2 tomatoes and blooms.

My whole garden... we've added some mulch around the border, I still need to fix the stepping stones and put some mulch in between them. Notice all the wild pumpkin plants throughout the garden that came up. I've pulled at least 20-30 already. I've pulled most of the weeds. Most of the green you see is grass clippings from mowing the grass yesterday, we still need to get a bagger.

In the Garden

Gavin loves to water the grass and the plants in the garden. He concentrates on watering each plant.