I planted a couple of sunflower seeds in each vegetable box. They are very tall and started to flower this week. The bees are going crazy for the sunflowers. We’ve had such a wonderful experience watching insects of all types enjoy the garden. Have a sunny day! This post has been linked up to An Oregon [...]
We got our first big bowl of food out of the garden this week! Woohoo! Since it is a lot of effort to keep up the garden, we make sure not to waste anything we grow. We harvested several eggplant, two zucchini, one summer squash, a cucumber, purple beans and two small tomatoes (not shown). [...]
Here is our garden on Sunday afternoon, July 22. Here is the garden in mid-June. I love how the garden explodes in just a few weeks. We’ve harvested lots of eggplant and chiles. But now we are getting summer squash and zucchini. We bought two varieties of beans (pole and bush) and they are both [...]
We have our first harvest of the season! The next three months we will enjoy the fresh food on a daily basis. While looking at our garden jungle… we found this little guy. He is just adorable. Although he is part of the harvest, we do not plan to eat him. We do, however, plan [...]
We planted the garden in mid-May and it is looking good! The seeds have all turned into little plants and the plants we purchased are growing quickly. One of the big upgrades to the garden is the drip irrigation system. Last year when we went out of town, we set up a timer and a [...]
We picked 40 eggplants from the garden this weekend! Some of them were on the petite side, but the Fairytale variety only grow to 4 inches in length. We also harvested 13 tomatoes and 1 summer squash. I attribute all the recent veggie growth to the long-awaited monsoons. For Sunday dinner we had a rocking [...]
Our plants are beginning to produce vegetables. Most are still too green or small to eat, but we’re excited about the prospect of eating our own veggies soon. The squash blossoms are as beautiful as lilies to me. I believe we have 3 rather large squash and they’re almost ready to eat. I’ve had to [...]
Here is the garden as of this week. We have some old favorites such as tomatoes, zucchini and Armenian cucumbers. We planted some new varieties of old favorites such as summer squash, eggplant and lemon cucumbers. Click on the photos to see the text more clearly. We recycled from other projects around the yard. Last [...]
I updated the photo wall in the dining room a few weeks ago. I have some striking new art (thank you, D!) I plan to intersperse with our photos all over the house and this is the beginning. I also added in some new family pictures. I’m contemplating buying a green matte for my new [...]
Coupons, that is. (Ha ha, I bet you thought I was getting something awesome like a car!) I was clearing out my expired/about-to-expire coupons and I noticed that I had lots of high value coupons that expired today. So I got out my Walgreens circular and matched up sales with coupons. I am finally able [...]