Harvest

This year has been hard in the garden.  The season has been extremely shortened, it rained, flooded, and didn't really warm up until June.  Now it is September and it is starting to cool down fast!  Still no pumpkins yet, and my runner beans are having a hard time, but everything else seems to be doing okay.  So far this year I have harvested:

Fairy tale eggplant....they taste so good and they don't take as long to ripen as the large eggplant.

Onions: They are tiny but full of flavor!  Hopefully next year I will grow normal sized onions.  This is my second year and I have definitely improved but still not quite there yet.

Cayenne peppers:  This is just the full harvest with plenty more to come.  I also have jalapeno, and poblano peppers on the way!  It's funny I have a hard time with everything but peppers.  Maybe when I married my husband, (who is Mexican)  his heritage spilled into me haha!

In the morning I have started eating egg white omelets with stuff harvested from the garden.  My favorite one so far is with tomatoes and basil.....I have so much basil!!!!  I am going to make pesto soon.

I was also very successful with my garlic.  I was really worried last year after I planted it in November.  There was a small warm spell and some of the garlic sprouted.  Turned out it didn't effect the garlic to sprout before winter.

My front garden is finally starting to fill out.  A lot of the flowers are starting to lose there color but some are still pretty vibrant!

This summer I also filled the rose garden with rock.  It looks a lot better and hopefully it will keep that crazy snake grass down!


This year because of the shortened growing season all of my squash and pumpkin are having issues.  This makes me really sad cause I love squash and pumpkins!  Oh well I still have hope!  The snow isn't on the ground yet!

04/22/2011

I have been super busy lately so I haven't had much time to post anything.  I am leaving for a week so I wanted to just share a couple of photos of the garden.  These photos are about a week old, so my seedlings are a bit bigger now but I didn't have time to update the photos.  When I get back in about a week I will post new photos.  That will be at the beginning of May so my seedlings are getting close to being planted outside.  I have already started hardening them off so they are pretty tough and will hopefully survive the transition from pot to ground.

First a couple of pictures of my seedlings, all of them are doing really well so far!

Fairy tale eggplant

Jalapeno

Second try at Okra, these are much more healthy than the first ones I planted.

This week I also prepared all of my garden plots.  My plot with all of my salad greens and peas are planted and have started growing.  This morning I checked the peas and I can see them poking through a bit.  My North garden with my containers was weeded and I even dug up some grass in preparation for sunflowers.  

In this plot I have onions and garlic growing.  I have placed old milk cartons and soda bottles in the area where I am planting my beans so that the soil is nice and warm for the little seeds to germinate.  

Plants from the nursery......

I replaced my Rosemary which did not make it through the winter

Strawberries...you can see my pumpkin patch in the background.

I also made to hanging containers.  It has purple pansies and a Hosta in the middle.  Buying already made containers can be pretty pricey but making my own only cost me about $4 each.

My magnolia is in full bloom right now....If only it bloomed year around!

This year the focus will be on the backyard.  I need to landscape it so it looks nice but the plants have to be strong enough to survive my huge German Shepherd so this should be interesting!

I noticed today that my tulips are starting to bloom, hopefully when I get back everything will be in full bloom!