Some results from the garden

I tried to grow some onions. They started out about as big as the tip of my pinkie finger and a couple grew this big. They came in handy when I made my Jack Daniel's sauce.

I took forever for the broccoli to grow. Here's a picture of it still on the plant:

And here it is off the plant:

If you let broccoli keep growing, and don't pick it, the little green part that you eat turns into a bouquet of yellow flowers. Who knew?

Here is one of the few strawberries that made it away from the garden. We didn't have very many this year, mostly thanks to Brighton who would lean over and eat them straight off the plant. They tasted delicious! As I was cleaning out my garden last week, I found, well it was actually Brighton who found, several more strawberries that are growing now. I had forgotten that I had planted plants that grow twice a year. Now there are strawberry runners all over the place. Time to replant for next year.

Did you know the if you let your lettuce keep growing it will look like this:

Wonderful, but not edible, lettuce trees!

Here is a picture of one of the two carrots that grew. (Yes, only two grew even though I planted several. But two is better than none!)

The peas grew and were eaten by the kids before I could cook them.

We had green beans several times for supper.

My tomatoes have done pretty well. I don't have pictures of the finished product, but they are still growing which has surprised me.

We had cucumbers growing out of our ears, even though I only planted two plants.

We still have green bell peppers. I only planted one bell pepper plant and we have had 10 or so peppers with 7 more still growing.

The corn grew, but not that well. Or maybe I should say that we just picked it too late. I was waiting for the right time to cook it and by the time the right time came, the corn was all sticky and nasty when we ate it. The two ears that we picked way too early, or so we thought, turned out great. Now we know to pick earlier next year.

It was a great experience having the garden this year and I can't wait to try it out again next year!

Our Garden

We decided to plant a garden this year. We are trying out the "square foot garden" which claims you can grow anything in 6 inches of soil. These pics are a few weeks old. I'll post some new ones when I can.

Welcome to our garden!

Brad worked with the kids to build our boxes. Then we all spent a few hours mixing our soil. We started planting and transplanting several different things. He is a pick of the broccoli, cauliflower, and onions:

Here our the first peas that we planted. They were planted from a seed by Will. He's been the big farmer who whats to plant everything. It's fun to see him get excited when they start to come up.

We planted some bean seeds and one is starting to peek through:

This is a pick of one of our strawberry plants. It's got a flower!

We also transplanted some lettuce:

We have 4 4x4 gardens and on 4x8 that we are planting corn in. We plan on mulching in between the boxes, but until we do, the kids get to plan in the puddles from the rain. Lucy is outside in a dress that isn't supposed to be outside. Guess I'm to busy taking pictures to watch my children.

Isn't she cute? Notice the big girl underwear!

Will came in while I was typing and looked at all the picks. He said, "Those peas are really little. Now they look like vines." He also said he just looked at our corn and that there are little green things all over the place and that I just HAVE to come see. So I'll go check that out and hopefully be back soon with more on our garden!