This week has been a very rainy and unusually cold week. It all started on Sunday, and supposedly going to end today for a great warm and sunny weekend.
I do have to say, even though the sun isn't out it was warm enough to get the kids outside without dressing them in their winter garb and to pay a visit to my garden.
here they are enjoying the swings:
This is the third year I have had a garden, and by no means am I a certified gardner. Remember the seed starters I did? (read about it here) Well, the beans were the only survivors of that fiasco. See, I accidentally left them out for two days and the birds had a feast. Which I guess is fine. I have planted seeds before, nothing new for me, throw them in the ground see what comes up.
Here are the surviving green beans.
But some nasty bugs are eating the leaves already. And see all the weeds I am going to have to pull? I thought if you did a garden in the same place, the weeds, after being pulled all summer, wouldn't come back? Someone was wrong.
Cucumbers are coming up. I made hamburger pickles last year. They were so yummy! I am going to do the same this year and also make some other pickles. I love pickles.
Zucchini. last year I had to pull up about 5 zucch plants because I planted them way to close together. Although it was cool, They were pretty large and flowering beautifully. As I was messing with them I was hearing buzzing sounds. Since the flowers were still closed from the evening, in each blossom were about 5-8 bees trapped. As I opened each blossom, the bees went off, pollen filled bodies, to go make honey. Before I opened the blossoms it was rather creepy to see it moving and pulsing. It was like Alien, but in a flower, not a body...
I am trying brussel sprouts this year. I think these are them coming up, not completely sure...like I said, I am not a gardener extraordinaire.
My strawberries are loving the rain and reaching up high into the sky. I bought three more plants so that I can hopefully next year make strawberry preserves. Oh Yum!! Or strawberry ice cream, or strawberry margaritas...wait, I have enough strawberries for the last two items. were good...
Not in my garden, but up by my garage, I have a Japanese Lilac bush. I LOVE IT!!! The fragrance almost pulls me to my knees, but mainly brings my nose into it. If I could, I would buy 20 of these and line something with them. Our driveway, or around the area our deck will eventually go, or just in a circle so I can go and lay in the middle of it in the spring, take in the great smell and hide from everyone.
Here are all the plants that still need to go into my garden, the ones I didn't trust myself with seeds, since the birds ate them all...
Then Kadence whom was done with mommy taking pictures and yelling at me to stop...
But of course I didn't.
Iris's, they never die. I mowed over them for the whole summer one year and they came back. They must be immortal plants. I wonder if I could find their heart, I would just have to run a stake through it? Then they would die? They also multiply like rabbits. I really should have split them up this year but didn't. It was kind of difficult to do so with all the rain. I don't like being in the rain when it is cold. Anyone out there want some?
So that is the extent of it. Nothing fabulous like roses, or fruit trees. One day maybe, but what I have makes me happy. I love seeing the plants burst through the dirt and grow. I love that a flower starts, then a vegetable or fruit grows. There is nothing like sitting in a garden and eating what you have just picked. Unless of course like my watermelon it rots before it ripens. I will fence it in this year though because the deer family that lives on our property helps themselves to my strawberries and it really makes me angry. So do the bunnies, but they at least just eat the strawberries and not the whole top of the plant!
Watching my garden grow brings me peace...
I do have to say, even though the sun isn't out it was warm enough to get the kids outside without dressing them in their winter garb and to pay a visit to my garden.
here they are enjoying the swings:
This is the third year I have had a garden, and by no means am I a certified gardner. Remember the seed starters I did? (read about it here) Well, the beans were the only survivors of that fiasco. See, I accidentally left them out for two days and the birds had a feast. Which I guess is fine. I have planted seeds before, nothing new for me, throw them in the ground see what comes up.
Here are the surviving green beans.
But some nasty bugs are eating the leaves already. And see all the weeds I am going to have to pull? I thought if you did a garden in the same place, the weeds, after being pulled all summer, wouldn't come back? Someone was wrong.
Cucumbers are coming up. I made hamburger pickles last year. They were so yummy! I am going to do the same this year and also make some other pickles. I love pickles.
Zucchini. last year I had to pull up about 5 zucch plants because I planted them way to close together. Although it was cool, They were pretty large and flowering beautifully. As I was messing with them I was hearing buzzing sounds. Since the flowers were still closed from the evening, in each blossom were about 5-8 bees trapped. As I opened each blossom, the bees went off, pollen filled bodies, to go make honey. Before I opened the blossoms it was rather creepy to see it moving and pulsing. It was like Alien, but in a flower, not a body...
I am trying brussel sprouts this year. I think these are them coming up, not completely sure...like I said, I am not a gardener extraordinaire.
My strawberries are loving the rain and reaching up high into the sky. I bought three more plants so that I can hopefully next year make strawberry preserves. Oh Yum!! Or strawberry ice cream, or strawberry margaritas...wait, I have enough strawberries for the last two items. were good...
Not in my garden, but up by my garage, I have a Japanese Lilac bush. I LOVE IT!!! The fragrance almost pulls me to my knees, but mainly brings my nose into it. If I could, I would buy 20 of these and line something with them. Our driveway, or around the area our deck will eventually go, or just in a circle so I can go and lay in the middle of it in the spring, take in the great smell and hide from everyone.
Here are all the plants that still need to go into my garden, the ones I didn't trust myself with seeds, since the birds ate them all...
Then Kadence whom was done with mommy taking pictures and yelling at me to stop...
But of course I didn't.
Iris's, they never die. I mowed over them for the whole summer one year and they came back. They must be immortal plants. I wonder if I could find their heart, I would just have to run a stake through it? Then they would die? They also multiply like rabbits. I really should have split them up this year but didn't. It was kind of difficult to do so with all the rain. I don't like being in the rain when it is cold. Anyone out there want some?
So that is the extent of it. Nothing fabulous like roses, or fruit trees. One day maybe, but what I have makes me happy. I love seeing the plants burst through the dirt and grow. I love that a flower starts, then a vegetable or fruit grows. There is nothing like sitting in a garden and eating what you have just picked. Unless of course like my watermelon it rots before it ripens. I will fence it in this year though because the deer family that lives on our property helps themselves to my strawberries and it really makes me angry. So do the bunnies, but they at least just eat the strawberries and not the whole top of the plant!
Watching my garden grow brings me peace...
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