April Showers

May 1.
We have had unseasonably cool and rainy days in the week leading up to this picture.  Not doing much for the tomatoes and peppers, but the cool weather plants are loving it!

Purple cabbage in the foreground, it's really jumped up out of the ground!

Green cabbage and broccoli in the row closest, and red lettuce and cauliflower the next row over.

Not sure what happened to this little broccoli plant :( you can see one of his 2 leaves down on the ground :(  Probably won't live long.

The peppers and tomatoes are there, but not doing much just yet. We'll be patient.

And on a slightly non-garden related note... not exactly sure if these caterpillars are gypsy moth caterpillars, but if they are we're going to be covered in their nasty webs.  Check out the four that were hanging out on the deck rail.

Second planting day

The Garden Master was super eager to hit the first day of the plant sale at our favorite place!!

We bought 2 flats of tomatoes, some peppers and some Marigolds which we are hoping will help in our plan to defend our squash plants against squash bugs.

When it was time to plant we all chipped in:

some more than others 

Look what we found!!  A tiny little broccoli crown! It's already done better than our last attempt.

2013!!

So, I failed in updating last years' garden pics...

Perhaps I'll do better this year? Now that the Princess is blogging (!) and updating her Unicorn Club blog regularly, maybe I'll do a better job at updating mine ;)


The kidlets and I started this year's garden with some cooler weather veggies while the Garden Master was out of town.

We planted cabbage (green and red), lettuce (green and red), broccoli and cauliflower.

The only one we have ever grown before was broccoli- and that was not very successful, hopefully this experiment will go better.

You can see how our planting went, lol!

The boy did help some.

This is my favorite part of our Family Garden!

The princess working on her lettuce plants.

2nd Pics

June 15.  Amazing how much growth has occurred in 12 days!  Just wait... you'll see! 

My Princess is still taller than the Tomatoes, and Baby Boy never wears a shirt ;)

OOh! I see a zucchini growing!!!

OOh! OOh! a yellow squash too!!

My Princess is helping water, it's serious business!

This is the humble beginning of Garden #2.  I started a few watermelon and cantaloupe seeds inside, but I have a notoriously black thumb inside... we'll see.  We've also planted more watermelon, cantaloupe, yellow squash and zucchini in this garden, hoping to avoid the squash bug that hit us so badly last summer.

First harvest!!! One green pepper (picked too early, imo. 2 banana peppers, and a mess of  beans)

1st pics

So the Garden Master tells me we planted the first seedlings and seeds in May.  Why, then, are my first garden pics from June 3??  I blame the children, and the job, and the dog, and the day-to-day household upkeep... Ok, excuses over, these are the pics from June 3.

Baby Boy and the Garden Master are checking out the tomatoes.

Tomatoes, definitely my favorite!  We have a few varieties in here. Heirlooms, Big Something-or-Others, Yellow Grapes and Red Cherries. 

 

 

 

 

Banana Peppers- this was an impulse buy on the Garden Master's part, if you ask me.  There were two empty spots in the garden, and the seedlings looked really healthy when we were looking at our favorite place ;)

Flowers growing on our green beans!!  We've planted bush beans again, as we know they do well here in our garden, but our "slightly aging" backs are protesting, again!  I'm putting in a case for pole beans next year!!

Yellow squash in the foreground, peppers, tomatoes, beans, then kids and the Garden Master.

Green Peppers

My little turkeys, they're taller than the tomatoes this time!

First two rows of beans are up and happy!  You can see the strings to the left showing the beans that have just been planted.  We're hoping to grow enough to last us the whole year!

 

 

 

Closest: yellow squash, Middle: Zucchini, Farthest: Cucumber

.  Almost all of our squash plants died last year before producing any fruit, dratted squash beetle! Hopefully this will be a happier squash year!!

Our family garden

This is the sixth year we have grown a garden, and they just keep increasing in size!  I'm sure that my Facebook friends are growing (ha!) tired of seeing random plant pictures, so I'm starting this blog.  We are certainly not garden pros, but we are having fun and enjoying the time we spend together in the garden.