How Does Your Garden Grow?

Want to take a walk through our garden?  Just don’t mind the weeds…and watch the mud.  We’ve had close to five inches of rain in the last 3 or 4 days.

It’s exciting to see things taking off this year.  I think moving the garden to a sunnier place has really helped. 

We have yellow and zucchini squash, sweet peas,  cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins and gourds.  Oh, and two lonely little green bean plants (sadly, that’s all that came up in the row).

 

We like to set a fence next to the cucumbers for them to climb.  It makes them so much easier to pick, and keeps cucumbers from laying and rotting on the ground.  We love them just sliced with a little Catalina dressing, or in garden salads.  This year we planted a bunch of different kinds in all shapes and sizes.   One packet said the cucumbers would be over a foot long.  I can’t wait to see them! 

Our peas got a late start, and are pretty slow in coming.  But I’m hopeful we’ll get at least enough for meal.  :) They might be ready to pick by the end of the week.

I remember Mom having 10 or 12 LONG double rows when I was growing up, and shelling a couple five gallon buckets at a time.  We froze enough peas for the entire winter, and they were delicious.

The tomatoes are coming along great, too.  We planted a variety including some slicing, cherry, and plumb tomatoes.  Three rows, in all.  Before my husband left for Germany, he set some posts with wire between them to tie up the plants.  It’s so much cheaper than buying individual tomato cages (especially for this amount of plants) and it works just fine.

For the last few years, our pepper plants have been really straggly. But this year, they are looking very healthy.   We’ve already had some chili peppers.  The bell and banana peppers will take some more time.

So that’s our garden!

I’ll have to remember take you on another walk after vacation, when everything is producing.  At least, I hope it will be producing by then!

The boys and I are heading down to the neighbors’ to walk their dog and then go for a swim. 

If I get a chance when we get back, I’ll write an update on my husband’s travels (he’s had some “fun”).  I might even share about our own “excitement” that he’s been missing!  Never a dull moment!!  And hardly a moment to blog…sigh.

How do these single mom’s do it, anyway!!??  My hat is SO off to them!