Garden as of 7/15

Large plot.
Small plot being taken over by the pumpkins. Remind me next year to put in one row of pumpkins in the big plot with LOTS of room to grow.

The vines are taking over. Yeah! Now it will be shaded enough for James.
Beans are going crazy. On the bottom right you can see my okra plants.
Look how cool that is.

Tomatoes finally turning color. Maybe they will be ready for pesto pasta salad on Saturday.
Cinderella pumpkin getting big.
I think this is a Musquee pumpkin, but with how much the pumpkin vines are intertwined I have no idea.
Happy gardener eating yummy strawberries.

New England pie pumpkin hanging in the tepee.
I think I have about 5 of them so far. Yum! Can't wait for Pumpkin pie.
Our first cucumber. At the top of the pic you can see a little guy starting to grow.
Little baby butternut squash. There are a lot of them on the vine. Yeah!

Putting by Zucchini

Look at all that zucchini. Making some bread today. Yum!

Ready for the freezer. This is one of the best ways to put zucchini in the freezer so it doesn't become mushy and yucky. You can add this to any recipe that calls for shredded zuke. I have it measured out in 2 cups for bread, but you can use it for pancakes and whatever else.

Still Comparing and Beans

It's just sad how the right one which was a transplant is so small and pathetic while the direct seed is huge and is sending off side shoots like crazy.
Lots of bean plant.
Another bean view.

The strawberries doing thier thing. We've been getting a few a day. They are yummy.
Our half plot. Yes, I put too many big pumpkins on the one side I know. Oh, well.

My First Canning Experience!

Yum! The four on the left are made with sugar. The four on the right are made with honey. I can see why it can be such an obsession.

Ok, well I had a brain fart and forget to say what I canned. Plums from my dad's overloaded tree. Wish I could go get more, but I probably won't be able to go up there until next week sometime. I don't know which variety they are, I think that went in one ear and out the other, if you really want to know I will find out for you.

Garden as of 7/4

So much greener lately. We finally got a sign for our plot.
Yeah, a pumpkin. Cinderella pumpkin. I have to go to the garden every day just to keep the plant from creeping everywhere except our plot.
New England Pie pumpkin hanging in the tepee. The vine supposeably will strengthen as the pumpkin grows, we'll see, its a small variety pumpkin so I think it will be alright.
Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes. Yeah, for tomato's. After all my trouble with the transplant soil I thought I'd never have tomatoes. I need to go get some wedding favor bags so I can start saving seed. These are sungold tomatoes, I forgot, I can't save seed for them. They are my only hybrid. I can't wait to add them to pesto pasta though. Mmmmm.....

Garden Plot as of 6/24

It's looking much greener now. Green beans are finally starting to fill in on the wire in front of the tepee. My only really good looking tomato plant (front right corner next to the lavender). Strawberries are going a little wild, but that's ok.
Can you say lopsided. Just a little. Those pumpkin plants and Zucchini are just dwarfing everything else. The zucchini plants are definately growing different as well. The direct seeded plant is twice as big already and developing its first zuke.

Direct Seed vs. Transplant, First Zucchini, and Little Bitty Pumpkin

Baby pumpkin.
My first Zucchini of the year. Yippee! And it won't be the last and I will be here complaining about how many silly zucchini's I have and how I'm sick of eating them soon. LOL!

Here is my direct seed (left front) vs. transplant (right front) of squash and pumpkins results. Look how the direct seeded plant on the left has bigger leaves and is a lot greener and healthier looking. Now we wait to see how they produce.

Green beans on the left finally starting to fill in the tunnel to the tepee. And my cucumber plant on the right with little bitty teany tiny cucumbers on it.

Tagged By Two

I’ve been tagged! By GardenPunks AND Garden of Eatin' . Katie of GardenPunks is a local garden blogger and Amy of Garden of Eatin' is a fellow redhead and garden blogger and both are fellow mdcer's.

Here are the rules:
Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on the blog.
Write six random things about yourself.
Tag six people at the end of your post.
Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Here are my six random things:
1) I love to dirt bike ride (my only ungreen thing I do)
2) I love dark chocolate
3) My favorite color is brown
4) I raised dairy goats in 4-H.
5) I went to Cal Poly CA and majored in Animal Science with a minor in Poultry Science.
6) I'm waiting for my Angora goats to sell so I can get some German Angora rabbits.

And here are the people I am tagging:

Carrot Tops because I just love her veggie garden pictures on her blog and she is a fellow redhead.

Sher with her My Photo Blog Blog because I love every picture she takes. She has a really cool camera and awesome pictures.

It Blows here because Sarah has a farm and I can't wait to be living on a farm again.

Not Hannah's because she writes a lot about her photos.

A Little Dirt Never Hurt because Jessica has a lot of cool ideas on her blog in the veggie garden.

My Little Slice of Heaven because she has a really cool garden blog.

Look! Look! There are 3!!!!!

You can see the 2 really well in this photo.
It's hard to see, but the third one is down there. Very nice.
Oh, and I keep forgetting to say where I got these beauties that seem to love the heat. At Peaceful Valley Farm Supply. 3 bareroot artichokes for $9.99. I thought that was a pretty good deal.

My swiss chard and my sad looking kale. I think something is eating it. I have more coming up. Plus some dill coming up as well that is hard to see.
James smelling roses at the garden. Mmmm....
This is me trying to get a photo of my squash/watermelon/pumpkins with James posing, but he decided at the last minute he wanted to look at the photos I already took. So, this is what I got. ;-)

Artichoke! Yes, That is Singular.

Beautiful isn't it?
I can't wait to eat it! Yum!