My Garden

This is my garden today. Yesterday my husband and little guy cleaned it up and got rid of the stuff.

It turned out to be a not so bad year, given the tomato blight.

The husband made lots of salsa and I made some tomato sauce to freeze.

We even got some carrots toward the end!!

Can't wait til next year now!! I am going to plant a couple Zucchini plants!

The Garden

Here is the Garden today. The left back is all the tomatoes, and the right back.

The front left are mostly all the peppers.

The front right are herbs, and cukes and lettuce. The lettuce is good!!

The Garden

It's not a great picture but you get the idea.

The extension is to the right.

We planted:

tomatoes
peppers
carrots
cukes
lettuce
parsley
sage
rosemary
thyme
cilantro

I can't wait to eat them all--well, except the hot peppers my husband planted.

Steaming compost, part ll

Eleven days ago I posted this.

Today my pile of enriched compost is STEAMING!!! I can hardly believe it but it is.

My husband told me today that he thought it felt warm and I went out there to check it out and sure enough it's warm and steaming and composting well!! I am so excited!

He is also going next week to get another truck load of compost/manure for the garden extension.

I have already purchased some seeds to start for the new part of the garden.

I am doing carrots again, and two different types of lettuce. I also got cucumbers and about three or four herbs.

There are already just four tomato plants in there now that hubby put in the other day. We are waiting to do more til we are sure it won't get so cold at night.

Mmmmm, the thought of fresh, warm, just picked, homegrown tomatoes is just mouth watering to me!!!

Fresh tomatoes...

We had an abundance of tomatoes this year.

We had regular tomatoes and Roma's.

My husband made 11 quarts of salsa and I made 9 quarts of tomato sauce to freeze!

We also gave away a ton of tomatoes to family members this year.

We had BLT's a few times too.

There is nothing like a fresh homegrown tomato with dinner.

I can't wait to eat the tomato sauce this winter!!!

Carrots!!

These are carrots from our garden!!

I steamed them last night for dinner and they were delicious.

We just planted two small rows of them and the rabbits or something ate most of the tops off, so they are kind of small.

Next year will be better I think.

Garden

Another picture of the garden. It's doing well.

Lots of tomatoes and peppers.

This is one of the green peppers. It is huge! I gave another one to my brother.

My husband and I have been talking recently about expanding the garden next year.

I think we are going to!

I will have more space to grow some different veggies and still grow all the tomatoes and peppers,

We'll have lots of work to do in the spring for the new garden!

Garden in July

Here's the garden picture for this month.

It's really doing well and I can hardly wait for tomatoes!!

I checked on the carrots and they were still tiny and there are peppers now!!

Garden

This is my Garden today. If you look above the red rake you can see the carrots!


This was the garden in May when it was first planted.



My husband and son also planted carrots and three different colored peppers, plus jalepeno peppers.

The garden seems to be doing well so far even with all the rain and not much sun.

I can't wait for homegrown tomatoes!!!

Tomato Plants!!

My husband took a chance and planted eight tomato plants yesterday!!! Big Boy, Bigger Boy, Beefsteak and Roma.

I can't wait. I am making spaghetti sauce this summer and fresh bruchetta!! And he will make more salsa.

I'll post pics later too when the plants are bigger.