Week twenty two in the garden

Our zucchini plant is doing great this year. We're thrilled since we didn't have success with them last year.

Does anyone know what this flower is called? Our friend gave us bunches of them to plant. They sure are pretty.

Boy do oranges grow fast!

Flowers on potato plants indicate healthy growth underground. We are thinking that there may be a few potatoes that are ready for harvest.

Week seventeen in the garden

It's supposed to be in the 90's this week. We've got our paws crossed that this broccoli will beat the heat. Daddy planted tons of beet seeds yesterday. We hope to see little seedlings very soon. Our potato tunnel is doing great. We can't wait to see how many potatoes are under all that dirt. We've got some Romas that are almost ready for harvest!!! My sniffer tells me that Daddy just put down some organic citrus fertilizer. I've gotta figure out how to get underneath that mulch so I can roll around in that fertilizer.

Week Ten in the garden- Earth Day

The kale is growing quiet well. Nothing around it even compares.

This little squash plant is already starting to grow little zucchinis. How exciting!

Our yukon golds are finally coming up. So that means it is time for some hilling.

Today Daddy mulched the tomato bed with fresh bark. Boy does it looks nice.

Strawberries are always better the second year around and judging by the size of these plants we will be enjoying more of these these little berries.

In honor of Earth Day we are planting a persimmon tree.

First Daddy dug a really deep hole and then he planted our new tree in a circle of bark. We think it looks great. What did you do for Earth Day?

Week seven in the garden

The potatoes are coming along nicely. It looks like we're not the only ones who are interested in seeing our Yukon Golds grow. Someone has been munching on the leaves and that doesn't make me very happy. We hope the neem oil will keep that someone away.


The San Marzano and Cherry Gold tomato and zucchini plants are looking very healthy. All the leaves look very thick and green.


Is the kale ready to be harvested again after just one week? As always, we are very impressed by this super green garden gem.


The parsley and chives are looking amazing and ready to eat.

Week six in the garden

We've been hard at work in our garden. Planting French Breakfast Radishes, Purple Top White Globe Turnips, and some Bull's Blood Beets is just the tip of the iceberg.

We also transplanted a couple of San Marzano Tomato plants and they look great. Mommy hasn't decided where to put this Zucchini Black Beauty so Daddy transplanted it into a pot for now.

You wouldn't know by looking, but Mommy harvested a bunch of the Kale Blue Curled Scotch today. The De Cicco Broccoli is also growing just fine with out any help from us. Who can forget about the onions, I can smell them as soon as I step outside.

The Italian Parsley is finally getting greener so it should start becoming more fragrant too. After we covered the Chives with plastic to protect them from a storm they have been looking better than ever. I guess they liked the warmth in side the mini greenhouse tunnel cover.

Daddy was dipping the seed Yukon Gold Potatoes in wood ash to callous them before planting. Daddy is creating a tower of potatoes that is sure to to grow tons of the yummy earth apples. So stay tuned we will be sharing some pictures soon.

Week four in the garden

Look what we found growing in the garden today. It's Yukon Gold Potatoes! Does that mean Daddy missed a few during last harvest? Oopsie.


We are not ready to give up on the Asian Pear tree. It still isn't growing like our lemon and lime trees.


Another crop that just keeps growing on it's own is the garlic. Mommy is paying close attention to it to make sure it does well.


Daddy has been working the soil in all of the empty beds getting ready for transplants. We still have a bunch of plants under a fluorescent light growing inside too.


Along with the parsley, chives and onions, the kale is our going to be a great producer like always. Ready for Zuppa Tuscana soup?

One potato, two potato, three potato, four....

We hope there are a lot more of you down there.

As you can see, this harvest was not as great as last year. Daddy thinks it might be the soil. Mommy thinks it's because the raised beds were restricting the potatoes from spreading out.

Way get your hands dirty, Daddy. Maybe you would like to use gloves next time? Mommy never lets me come into the house with hands that dirty.

Week eight in the garden

Where's all the lettuce? I don't even see enough for a side salad.

Thankfully we have lots of baby greens from our other raised beds to keep our salad bowl full. Mommy said she loves how the little rows of different veggies are so pretty in this bed.

Wow, we have never grown such big strawberries. Sierra keeps checking to see if there are any turning red, but sorry little Sister, not yet.

We officially have a potato jungle in our backyard. The little yukon gold plants aren't so little anymore. Can you see me? There I am hiding behind all those monster potato bushes. I think I'm gonna have to do some digging pretty soon because I can smell those little spuds growing already.

Week seven in the garden

Every time we go outside to check on the garden we are shocked by how much things grow from one day to the next. There are lots of little strawberries starting to grow.

The potatoes and

the snap pea plants look have doubled in size since last week.

Our two zucchini plants look really healthy and our doing quite well in there five gallon pots.

Mommy and Daddy have been picking fresh radish to eat with there dinner salad made with baby greens from the our kale, bok choy, and beet plants.

The dill is starting to take shape but it looks lonely all by itself so we will have to work on that.

We were hanging out today when all of a sudden...

...there was a thunder storm and it started hailing like crazy. Lucky for us we had already done our photo shoot and gone for our daily walk.

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!