Update on My Garden

I haven't posted on the status of my garden for a while.  Sorry, I don't have pictures to share with you, I keep forgetting to bring my camera when I go to the garden.

Cucumbers were a bust this year.  We were invested with cucumber bugs and I just couldn't keep on top of them.  I ended up pulling them out of my garden.  Zucchini was the same, they didn't even make it past the initial growth stage.

I had an abundance of sugar snap peas.  They were soooo yummy.  I will definitely be growing them again next year.

Potatoes ended up with bugs as well, but I think I got them under control enough to have a crop this fall.  We'll see.

My tomato plants are overflowing!  They are just starting to ripen.  I can't wait to make some salsa and sauce to can.  YUM!

My carrots didn't get too big, but they are tasty enough.  I should have thinned them out a bit more. 

I think that I will build a bed in my own yard next year.  Part of the problem with maintenance was it being somewhere other than my house.  It would have been much easier to water and debug if I could have done it each night after work for about 10 minutes.

We've had a problem with security over at the garden as well.  Seems people are helping themselves to our gardens.  We even have a sneaky suspicion that it's our own fellow gardeners.  I, for one, have actually seen a fellow gardener help herself to someone else's garden.  I was quite shocked.  We are in the process of getting the gate fixed so it can be locked and opened only by gardeners.  If the stealing stops, then we'll know it was from either neighborhood people or possibly teenagers just being destructive.

It's been a great learning experience and I am excited to spend some time this winter planning out next year's garden...in my own yard!

Hope you are all having a wonderful day.

The sun is shining here in my little part of the world and it makes me smile.

Smile today and create your own little bit of sunshine.

God bless.

Mary, Mary Quite contrary

...my how my garden is growing!

I'm very excited at the progress of my garden. Look at those sugar snap peas! I should be able to start harvesting lettuce next week. Yum!

Snapped this photo of my rhododendron this morning.

You'd think I have a green thumb or something.

Actually, my grandfather was quite the gardener. God must have blessed me with his gardening genes.

Hodge Podge

Hodge-podge is a word used to describe a confused or disorderly mass or collection of things; a “mess” or a “jumble.”

Thought this might be a fun title for today's post.

I've had lots on my mind and lots to say since I last posted, but I've been sick.  We've had a nasty cold-type virus going around the area and I've now had it for over a week.  It's hard for me to concentrate on any one thing for a very long when I am so congested.  I have that "foggy head" kinda feeling.  All these very important issues have been happening around me and it seemed like I just couldn't gather my thoughts together to offer an opinion.  

So here are a few hodge-podge kinda thoughts on my mind today.

I've joined the new Community Garden in my little town.  I signed up for a 4x4 plot; I didn't want anything too big seeing this is my first attempt at growing vegetables.  But I did want to get as much into the space as possible, so I used my Border's 33% off coupon and bought the new Square Foot Gardening Book by Mel Bartholomew.   It has me hooked and I'm all excited.

Here's a picture of what I accomplished yesterday in my little piece of gardening heaven.

The trellis on the end will hold tomatoes and cucumbers.  The teepee contraption will hold my sugar snap peas.  Yesterday, I planted sugar snap peas, carrots and some lettuce.  I will wait until after memorial day to plant the cucumbers and tomatoes.  I can't wait for little green shoots to start sprouting up.  Hubby & youngest daughter helped me pull it all together.  Fun, fun, fun!

Last weekend we brought the new camper down to the lake and this past Saturday was spent loading things and putting them away.  We just need to get an electrical extension and new hose for the water, along with filled propane tanks, and we are all set to go.  

Here is my other little piece of heaven, this one at the lake.

Can't wait to get some flowers planted to pretty up our space.  We'll also be hauling down our porch swing for warm summer nights.

Let's see....Oh yes, oldest daughter is graduating soon.  Must get invitations out in the mail.  So much to do in the next couple of weeks.  We want to have a yard sale to clean out the cobwebs in our attic, that will be in a couple of weekends.  Need to do some spring cleaning before party guests arrive for daughter's graduation party.  Her prom is coming right up also.  After all that is said and done, youngest daughter wants to have a sleep over at the camper for her birthday.

And somehow, amongst everything I have to do, I need to attend to my little garden. 

I really need to get well and get well soon.

Phew.

Okay, so I really don't have time to be sitting here.  Off I go.

God bless!