from our garden

This was taken August 9th.

This was taken about 20 minutes ago. Today is August 12th.

Two Purple Beauty bell peppers, two ears of “Early & Often” hybrid Sweet Corn, a few small onions, a handful of beans and about three cups of peas. Oh, and some tomatoes. The E&O corn will definitely be planted next year. We’re pretty happy with it. We only have two bean bushes because we aren’t big bean eaters. The tomatoes … well, they are possessed.

We’re more than pleased with how our little garden has grown thus far. This year (our first growing season in the house) is our first year for the garden – and our little experiment has been great, thus far. We have so many ideas of how we want to do things next year. In fact, it’s created a bit of a monster, to be honest.

We have a lot of ideas on how we can make next year’s garden bigger without physically expanding the beds and better. We have a better idea of how we are going to plant things (taking into account, for instance, the fact that the tomatoes are on steroids and should have had more space between them – but these aren’t acting like “normal” tomatoes). We know to cover the carrots & cucumber seedlings until they get at least three inches tall to discourage bunnies. We know that our side yard is a veritable wind tunnel and have plans to shore up the ends with selective plantings. We know not to plant super sunflowers at the east end of the bed because they grow amazingly tall and shade that entire bed. I also know not to expect that the cabbage seedling the boy brings home from school will die, and now realize that it’s not okay to put it just anywhere – because it isn’t dead. In fact, it’s somehow thriving … and it’s shading my carrots…. you know, the ones the bunnies didn’t help themselves to.

We have pumpkins taking over our front yard. Well, one pumpkin is taking over – the other two are behaving nicely (so far?). We didn’t plant them. They are volunteer plants. I couldn’t bring myself to tear them out (which also explains why we have a single midget corn plant struggling to exist in an itty bitty crack alongside our driveway). At any rate, this picture is already way outdated because this pumpkin is obviously SO much bigger than it was. I will take another one soon.

Life is amazing.

~ by natalieclicks on August 12, 2009.