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.