{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week.
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Friday, July 9, 2010
This moment...
inspired by soulemama.
{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week.
{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week.
Friday, July 2, 2010
How does your garden grow?......
My garden is growing faster and bigger than I had ever imagined..those tiny little tomato plants that we planted back in Mid- May have grown as tall as me!
Our limes are growing slowly but there are at least eight on this tiny little "tree", the lemons are not as plentiful hopefully next year!
I am just in awe at the size, I wanted something big enough to grown a variety but not too big that I am overwhelmed, I think so far this is working for us but my head is already cranking out plans as to what to grow and where to grow it to better suit its needs.
Lettuce!!
watermelon baby, so cute. It appears as if we are going to have a plethora of watermelon and cantelope, if they all grow to maturity I believe there will have to be a roadside stand for just the melons, seriously there are 20 melons out there growing ~ YIKES~ I'll keep you posted and let you know if and when there are any available ;)
Eggplants are looking lovely~
Cherry tomatoes~are turning red (though not in the picture)
ra ra ra ah ah ah roma roma ma!!
cantelopes, cute and fuzzy~
sunflowers growing amidst the cut flowers...tomatoes in the middle watermelon and cantelopes taking over beans to the far right!
Flox and echinacea~
Yes the garden is beautiful and bountiful, we are picking zucchini daily, cucumbers every few days and the green beans are in need of harvesting. The cherry tomatoes are beginning to ripen, even ate a few yesterday!, the roma's are right behind and there are more big tomatoes than I can count!
The kids go out every morning and evening and in between. Jaden went out to water before I even got out of bed the other morning! Eliza is also finding herself hanging around, picking leaves and munching on the green beans.
It has really become such a wonderful place for us to hang, next year I want to build it so that there is a place to sit and be, maybe amidst the cut flowers...sort of a fairy type childrens garden. Where they can go and sit amongst the growing plants, they seem to want to just hang out, but because of space and the craziness of the melons there isn't much room.
I hope you enjoyed out little garden tour!
We will be away for the next week or so on vacation...I am sad to leave our garden but I am hoping to leave it in the hands of a very capable neighbor to tend to it while we are gone...I can't wait to see what happens in a week. I am not sure if I'll be back this week, but I'll try.
Our limes are growing slowly but there are at least eight on this tiny little "tree", the lemons are not as plentiful hopefully next year!
I am just in awe at the size, I wanted something big enough to grown a variety but not too big that I am overwhelmed, I think so far this is working for us but my head is already cranking out plans as to what to grow and where to grow it to better suit its needs.
Lettuce!!
watermelon baby, so cute. It appears as if we are going to have a plethora of watermelon and cantelope, if they all grow to maturity I believe there will have to be a roadside stand for just the melons, seriously there are 20 melons out there growing ~ YIKES~ I'll keep you posted and let you know if and when there are any available ;)
Eggplants are looking lovely~
Cherry tomatoes~are turning red (though not in the picture)
ra ra ra ah ah ah roma roma ma!!
cantelopes, cute and fuzzy~
sunflowers growing amidst the cut flowers...tomatoes in the middle watermelon and cantelopes taking over beans to the far right!
Flox and echinacea~
Yes the garden is beautiful and bountiful, we are picking zucchini daily, cucumbers every few days and the green beans are in need of harvesting. The cherry tomatoes are beginning to ripen, even ate a few yesterday!, the roma's are right behind and there are more big tomatoes than I can count!
The kids go out every morning and evening and in between. Jaden went out to water before I even got out of bed the other morning! Eliza is also finding herself hanging around, picking leaves and munching on the green beans.
It has really become such a wonderful place for us to hang, next year I want to build it so that there is a place to sit and be, maybe amidst the cut flowers...sort of a fairy type childrens garden. Where they can go and sit amongst the growing plants, they seem to want to just hang out, but because of space and the craziness of the melons there isn't much room.
I hope you enjoyed out little garden tour!
We will be away for the next week or so on vacation...I am sad to leave our garden but I am hoping to leave it in the hands of a very capable neighbor to tend to it while we are gone...I can't wait to see what happens in a week. I am not sure if I'll be back this week, but I'll try.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
my garden is....
making so very happy!!
Every morning I go out weed, water and wander through it. It's a good size not too big, as it is our first garden but not too small either. I didn't plant as much as I had wanted too, but I am okay with that. But I have a good selection.
The two front and left are eggplants, to the right are strawberries, which I think I am going to move next year to there own little area, well big area as I want them to have more space to spread and grow, along the edge are Jays' cut flowers that he was so very excited about planting, and next to them are sunflowers that are just stretching and reaching every day closer to the sun.
The zucchini were planted to close to each other and the tomatoes and the cucumbers. oops!
They were just these tiny little plants when I put them in and forgetting that cucumbers spread and are viny and that zucchini plants grow big and huge...and well you get this scene below a bit of overcrowding!! Oh and theres a line of carrots to the left of the zukes and cukes that are doing well but are being crowded by said zukes and cukes...
and these are my beans, bush beans to be exact, they are doing well and just today I found little pink flowers growing!! These photos were taken about few days ago.
and here are my sad little snap peas, planted too late I am afraid, they are producing peas but they are tiny and not very sweet. But just they other day I noticed two of them have new healthy green shoots with flowers growing from them, which gives me hope we may get just a few more peas before it just gets too hot for them. They also need to be staked.
There are also watermelons and cantelopes growing which look beautiful. We have harvested a few cucumbers and we even got a few strawberries which was fun! I can't wait to go out in the mornings by myself or with a few littles beside me to harvest the bounty...soon, soon!
this garden is making so very happy theses days...feeling thankful for what can come from a tiny seed, a bit o' sun, water and some dirt can do.
Every morning I go out weed, water and wander through it. It's a good size not too big, as it is our first garden but not too small either. I didn't plant as much as I had wanted too, but I am okay with that. But I have a good selection.
The two front and left are eggplants, to the right are strawberries, which I think I am going to move next year to there own little area, well big area as I want them to have more space to spread and grow, along the edge are Jays' cut flowers that he was so very excited about planting, and next to them are sunflowers that are just stretching and reaching every day closer to the sun.
The zucchini were planted to close to each other and the tomatoes and the cucumbers. oops!They were just these tiny little plants when I put them in and forgetting that cucumbers spread and are viny and that zucchini plants grow big and huge...and well you get this scene below a bit of overcrowding!! Oh and theres a line of carrots to the left of the zukes and cukes that are doing well but are being crowded by said zukes and cukes...
and these are my beans, bush beans to be exact, they are doing well and just today I found little pink flowers growing!! These photos were taken about few days ago.
and here are my sad little snap peas, planted too late I am afraid, they are producing peas but they are tiny and not very sweet. But just they other day I noticed two of them have new healthy green shoots with flowers growing from them, which gives me hope we may get just a few more peas before it just gets too hot for them. They also need to be staked.
There are also watermelons and cantelopes growing which look beautiful. We have harvested a few cucumbers and we even got a few strawberries which was fun! I can't wait to go out in the mornings by myself or with a few littles beside me to harvest the bounty...soon, soon!this garden is making so very happy theses days...feeling thankful for what can come from a tiny seed, a bit o' sun, water and some dirt can do.
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