Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The Garden :)

We had a tough, slow beginning with our garden but its going like crazy now!  I think this is going to be one of our best gardens yet!  This year is the first year we planted Marigolds in our garden along the plants and this is also the first year we haven't needed to bring out the Sevin spray!  Usually we struggle with these little bugs that eat all our squash plants down to nothing and potato bugs get really out of control as well.  I'm hoping its the Marigolds and not just the season, but we haven't had any!  I'm so pleased!

Onions, broccoli, lettuce and celery 

Peppers and Tomatoes

Carrots

Beans and Potatoes...neither of which we have ever grown plants this huge!  They are so big and bushy this year!  I also learned that I can't plant a straight row to save my life ;)

Yellow Squash, Zucchini, Butternut Squash, and Cucumbers 

Baby Yellow Squash :)

We had our first zucchini last night and it was awesome!

We had to replant our cucumbers this year so they are a bit behind everything else, but they are starting to really come along in this heat and humidity :)

The tomato plants are loaded!

We planted orange bell peppers this year.  
Or at least we hope that is what they are :)

Our heads of broccoli look great!


We have been eating lettuce for a while now.  This is our second crop already.

Last year was our first time planting onions and while they were good, we planted them late and close.  This year looks like we improved quite a bit!

There has to be a monster onion under that :)

We tried Celery this year.  I don't think its going to amount to anything but we figured it didn't hurt to try!

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