Week sixteen in the garden

Hi everyone, we hope your weekend was full of joy. We live in a very windy city. There is always a breeze blowing through, but at times it can be a bit gusty. Daddy said it might rain tomorrow so of course it was extra windy today. Unfortunately one of our our patio shades did not survive. We just put them up a few weeks ago so we are all very disappointed. Good thing we staked our Baby Bell's pepper plant because it has these little babies growing. Since it is our first time growing this variety, we have no idea how big they will grow before they start to ripen. We hope it's sooner than later. Even though there aren't a lot of them, the carrots are getting really big. Last year they were so small I could eat one in a single bite but not this year. Hooray for limes. I just love the shade from the lime tree. We definitely planted it in just the right spot so I can relax by the garden on sunny days. The bad thing about limes as Sierra always likes to point out is that they really don't make good chew toys.

Sierra's Scoop

Happy Tuesday, everyone. It's Sierra! O.M.G. I have to say, I love carrots. I don't care what size they are either. I like big ones fresh out of the ground and the little baby ones from the store. To keep us healthy and trim, Teddy and I get a few carrots every night with our dinner. For dessert I am thinking maybe Mommy can whip up some carrot cookies. I would go bonkers for carrot cookies wouldn't you?

Today's harvest

Look what we picked from our garden today! A beautiful watermelon, a cantaloupe, one carrot, and lots of bell peppers. I hope we get to cut into the watermelon for dessert tonight. We've heard there is snow waiting for us at our cabin. We hope we can go see the white stuff really, really soon.

Week thirty in the garden

Thankfully for our melons it has been sunny and in the eighties over the last week. I just wish I could make them hurry up and grow.

Our lovely purple bell peppers. It's funny how they start out green, then turn purple, only to finish by turning red.

Daddy scattered carrot seeds a while ago and had since forgotten about them until today. There are only a few out there but they are hiding in the watermelon vines.

Yes that is the plant that won't die. It was nothing but a stump a month ago. Swiss chard has been a pretty amazing part of our garden.

Hoop houses and row covers are in our near future but the San Marzano tomatoes are going to be the first thing Daddy covers with a mini green house. We are going to keep this vine growing as long as possible.

Wordless Wednesday: Snack time

Week eighteen in the garden

Today might have been the best Sunday of the summer. The weather was not too hot, most of the yard work was finished yesterday, and Mommy and Daddy were both home all day so we had lots of together time, lots of snack time, and even more belly rub time than ever. As you can see our garden is doing very well.

The cucumber plant keeps spreading out and is now crawling across the little fence around the garden.

They sure are growing slowly.

I really love the colors of our lettuce. They might be the prettiest edible plants out there.

It looks like some little black bugs found the broccoli flowers before Daddy did.

We also harvested all of our beets and carrots yesterday so today we planted more beets, and carrots, and also some spinach.

These little pepper plants are finally starting to come back after Daddy almost killed them by not watering them enough during our last heat wave.

Our corn is starting to flower already so we will definitely be enjoying corn on the cob very soon.

Our cherry tomato trellis is starting to really fill out with little green balls.

Our oranges are almost full size so we hope they will start turning color soon.

Wordless Wednesday: Today's harvest

Week eleven in the garden

We love snoopervising Mommy and Daddy while they're working in the garden.

Our squash/zucchini/pumpkin patch is in full bloom. Look at those huge leaves!

We've harvested strawberries almost every day this week. And we hope to be harvesting more and more.

Daddy had to thin out the carrots today. Mommy thought the baby carrots were so cute.

It's always exciting to see flowers on plants. Flowers mean that baby bells are just around the corner.

We wonder how big the pears will get this year.

It's very exciting to see so many baby tomatoes.

We hope everyone had a pawesome weekend!!!

Week six in the garden

Oooohhh la la , can you tell these little radishes are almost ready to eat? Our garden is doing very well in this cool sunny weather we've been having.

The garlic really surprised us by how fast it grew.

After much anticipation we are finally seeing a row of baby carrot tops in between our rows of green onions and beets.

Mommy is very excited about our little yukon gold potato plants too. They look very healthy and all trying to reach for the sky.

Do I look excited to start eating strawberries again. I've been waiting for months for one of those little morsels of goodness. I think I just love berries of any kind.

The dill made its first appearance this week right near our little basil plant.

Along with our potted squash plant and zucchini, our pumpkins plants are finally here.

Our lettuce bed looks empty but there are little plants growing all over. We are still playing catch up around here so maybe in a couple more weeks we'll start reaping what we sow.


Happy Mother's Day to our amazing Mommy and to all the amazing Mother's out there!