Monday, June 25, 2012

MY DAD INSPIRES ME!

My Dad inspires me to get out there! Get out there and weed, water and take care of my garden.
I saw his garden last night and "WOW"..... I said "WOW"!! His garden is immaculate! Spectacular! I am very impressed. He has really no weeds. What a hard working man. So proud!
So this morning I got out my tiller and went to work. I have planted some of my rows too close together and now I can't rototill in between.
So I did the best I could and weeded by hand a bit. Now I am watering again. I pulled up most of my onions so I could rototill that area.

Dad's garden: Spotless! South side of garden has Gladiolas, Beans, Squash, Corn.

Dads corn: Look at all that CORN!!

Dad's north side of garden Cukes, Potatoes....

Dad's: That's one long row of POTATOES

Dad's Fall squash and pumpkins

Blue bird eggs in the rail road tie

Dad's sweet corn in his garden and field corn off to the far right.

Dad's corn

Dad's garden: "My mom told me not to put beans in my ears."

Dad's tomatoes are really tall. Look how his sweet corn blends into the field corn in this picture.

Sun is setting






I have two of these bushes that bloom and bring bees. My brother gave them to me.
Sunset beyond the irrigation 


My orange tree

My onions

My garden next to my dead grass. So dry for June.

My summer squash are finally blooming

Squash blossom

Squash

Got some of the weeds. But most of them are by my beans and tomatoes

Here's that eggplant growing again




Sunday, June 24, 2012

HOW IS YOUR GARDEN GROWING?

Broccoli

Eggplant blossom

Baby eggplant growing

Summer squash

More squash

Tomatilo in blossom
Peas in blossom and some pods on the right side


Swiss chard
Peas curling around the string and climbing
Basil

Potatoes in bloom

My greens (Swiss chard, kale,collards, basil)
Cooking greens in olive oil and steaming them.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

EATING THE PRODUCE

Drying some of my dill and my first radishes

Green onions and chives

Both Dad's and my gardens have fresh lettuce ready. His includes some arugula. Yum!!
Dad is sharing his radishes and onions. The white ones are a bit hot.




Thursday, June 7, 2012

DAD'S GARDEN IS BEAUTIFUL

Sweet corn is all up and looks nice.

Nice clean rows
NOW THAT'S A LOT OF TATERS

Peter Pepper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Tomatoes/To~ma~toes

FIRST HARVESTS

Tender lettuce is almost ready to cut.
I am already enjoying some first harvests of my garden. Green onions, chives, collards, Swiss chard & kale.
We made baked potatoes and topped them with sauteed greens and fresh onions  & chives.