Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2009

The Garden

We have leafed out, literally.  We decided to give gardening a try this year and so far it has exceeded my expectations.  Our soil is pretty much clay, so I was concerned about root rot since it doesn't drain very well.  To combat that, we have been aerating the soil near the plants to help get some air in there.  So far it has worked just fine.

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You can't tell a whole lot from this picture.  The plants in the row to the far left kind of blend in with the grass!  But it is full of peppers, hot and sweet.  The plants in the middle row are on the opposite end of where I took the picture and it is tomatoes.

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The squash!!  These babies are really starting to produce a bunch of tiny little squashes!

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Hot Banana Peppers ~ if you look toward the middle of the plant you will see a pepper growing sideways and just in front of it is another one growing up, but it kinda looks like a leaf in this shot.

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Cherry Tomatoes ~  there are about 3 tiny green balls so far on this one.

We are just now starting to see the fruit of our labor and I'm pretty darn excited about it!  Thankfully, the rain, up until the last week, had been consistent enough to keep it watered (and sometimes drown)!

I have spent long hours planting and weeding in the garden (ok, so I've been good at planting and letting Lance do most of the weeding).  But I guess I'll have to get out there tomorrow and give it a good watering.

"I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses, And the voice I hear falling on my ear, the Son of God discloses.  And He walks with me, and He talks with me, and He tells me I am His own.  And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known"