Garden Girls

Maddy has become our little garden girl. Everyday she puts on her hat, apron, and gardening gloves and goes out to check if anything needs to be picked.

Jadelyn does not like to help in the garden, but she was very proud of her cabbage. Her little cabbage plant that she brought home from school started this whole thing. Jadelyn does like to show all the neighbor kids and people that come over our garden. She takes full credit for it of course!

Our garden has just grown and grown! We had some complications(Tony decided if a little fertilizer was good then a ton would be even better and burnt everything up) but replanted and things are going great now. We have already had squash produce enough to get several for dinner and have now replanted it using the "hill" method this time.

We have okra coming fast and furious now. We are able to cut okra every day or two now. We have made fries okra, given some away, and have several bags frozen already. We also have cucumbers growing pretty fast right now too. I am going to have to learn how to pickle okra and cucumbers real soon. If anyone has any easy recipes send them my way.

Our green bell peppers are the only ones that are ready to eat right now.

Our banana, habanero and jalapeno peppers are not quiet ready yet but should be soon!

 We have 9 regular tomato plants. One tomatillo plant that has become the biggest thing in the garden, and one zebra green tomato plant. None of them are ready yet, but the zebra ones are living up to their name so far.

We also have melons that have taken over our yard. We did not realize how much they would spread out. What started out as one row of watermelons and one row of cantaloupe has turned into total vine chaos. It is like a treasure hunt trying to find the melons in that mess but we have a bunch!  We even have a couple that  should be ready soon.

Overall the whole garden experience has been great. It was a little bit of hard work in the beginning, but now we are starting to see the payoff. It is so exciting to go out there in the evenings and see what is ready to pick(Geez I'm getting old!!!!) We only had to use a pesticide one time, so they are as organic as we could get without the bugs eating them up! I'm telling you that there is something SO nice about being able to go in the backyard and get fresh veggies! Definitely worth the work!