Week twenty seven in the garden

We're so glad to see the lettuce starting to grow before the cooler weather is upon us.

Look at all of those bell peppers. I wonder what Mommy will make with all of them?

We can't wait for all of the oranges to turn color. I wonder if there is such a thing as orange butter. Hmmmmm....

Kale is to be one of the strongest veggies out there. It can survive anything. Mommy says it's really good for you too.

We hope everyone had a great weekend.

Week nineteen in the garden

Wow oh wow, it is August already? I can't believe how crazy of a year it has been. Weather has played a major role in delaying all of our crops this year. Thankfully until now the bugs haven't been too bad but recently something has been invading our garden and munching on our strawberries before I ever get to... Grrrrr. What's going on, Daddy? Put up that bird netting already. Sierra and I can't watch the garden all the time.
The cucumbers are finally getting big enough to harvest.

And the tomatoes are bearing plenty of cherry sun golds for all you can eat fresh garden salad.

I love the way corn grows so fast. It will be peaking over our really high fence any day now.

Our oranges still look like limes so Mommy says it looks like they will still be a while.
Kale, lettuce, basil and all of our other herbs are doing excellent in this wonderfully mild summer we're having in Northern California.

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.

Week sixteen in the garden

Sixteen long weeks and we've only harvested a small basket of cherry tomatoes!What is going on around here? We've got basil on the way.Let's get with it Daddy. Mommy needs to make some marinara sauce already. Since we were still packing for our big move when we should of been sowing seeds, our garden is a little behind schedule. The San Marzano plants keep growing and growing but have yet to bear any fruit.
On the other hand, it's starting to look a lot like Thanksgiving around here. We have ripening sugar pumpkins and mini stalks of corn growing oh so well.
Speaking of things growing well, look at our romaine.It is really doing better than we ever expected. Daddy has finally redeemed himself in the lettuce growing department. It only took him a few seasons to get it right but you know what they say...better late than never.
I love how fast zucchini grows. I bet if I just stared at it all day long I would totally see it get bigger.
On the other hand, it doesn't look like the cucumbers have grown a bit since last week so we will have to wait and see how long they take to grow. Hopefully it's not too long.

Week fifteen in the garden

Our lettuce is just about ready for a salad and
Another row of beets look to be almost finished.

Sweet corn is shooting up towards the sky more and more every day.

Our cucumber plant has little ones growing so maybe next week we will feast on those too.

We harvested lots of strawberries, zucchini, and kale this past week . Our first sugar pumpkin is turning orange so we are very excited about that. I cant wait to tell you about the really exciting part of our weekend. We went on a trip and had so much fun but Mommy made promise to not talk about any of that until tomorrow. Wow, I can't handle the suspense...
OH FOR THE LOVE OF BLOGS! I have said too much already. O.K. I have to go now. Sweet Dreams.

Week fourteen in the gargen

Hi there, baby sugar pumpkin. We can't wait to see more and more of you.

The spaghetti squash is getting really big.

We are more than ecstatic to see our first cucumber.

The lettuce is doing extremely well in the raised bed. They look ready to be eaten.

These tomatoes should go very well with the lettuce for a yummy salad tomorrow night.

The swiss chard looks ready for harvest. We don't really like swiss chard but Mommy and Daddy seem to love it.

We think the corn grew about eight inches this week. They must really like the hot weather.

Look at the size of the oranges. We wonder when they'll start turning orange?

We hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend.

Week thirteen in the garden

It looks like we're going to have zucchini coming out of our ears.

Well hello there sugar pumpkin!

We love seeing red strawberries.

Can you see our first red cherry tomato?

Mommy really needs to harvest these snap peas tomorrow.

The lettuce finally seems to be doing well now that we're trying it in one of our raised beds. Daddy plans to make the lettuce box bigger with hopes that it will help the lettuce grow better. Our lettuce has never done too well in the lettuce box.

We hope everyone had a great weekend!

Week twelve in the garden

Do you see what I see? It's our very first zucchini of the season. Daddy almost did a backwards cartwheel when he saw the baby zucchini but I told him to restrain himself.

We are seeing more and more baby tomatoes every day.

We hope our newest crop of lettuce will be much better than our last.

We finally have snap peas!!! Mommy says she'll harvest some this week for dinner.

We could hardly believe our eyes. Our new lemon and lime trees are flowering. And you know what flowers mean...fruit. We can't wait to see how big the lemons and limes get this year.

Happy Father's Day to our pretty amazing Daddy and to all the pretty amazing Dad's out there!!! You are loved!