Keep On Growing!

Here are the latest pictures of our garden, taken last week. Everything is growing very well, and we're starting to pick lots of cherry tomatoes, radishes, peppers, and we're even getting a second round of strawberries!

Our total yield of produce is : 2 lbs., 12 oz.

This first picture was taken May 24, 2011. In the far left bed, next to the deck, we have several varieties of tomatoes, and also strawberries. The middle bed has different types of peppers, all hot! The bed on the right has brussels sprouts, nasturtiums, radishes, beets and purple carrots. The bed in the front has zucchini and yellow squash, peppers, stevia, and savory. We also have a couple blueberry bushes and two kiwi plants.

These pictures were taken on June 9, 2011. We've now mulched the beds with newspaper and pine straw, so some of the smaller plants are barely peeking up. Everything is growing well. The lumber stacked on the side is for an arbor for our kiwi plants. They are fast outgrowing the small trellis we have them on!

The yield thus far: 2 radishes, and 4 cherry tomatoes. Weldon also picked a cowhorn pepper (a type of cayenne) for lunch today, but I didn't get a picture. 

Lilies from the back yard.

Total pounds of produce so far:  2 1/2 oz.

Not much, but I'm going to keep track all summer, if possible, and see how much we get!

Our Garden--A Journey of Hard Work and Sweat

To begin this blog, I have to take you back a several months. Last spring/summer, we only had one garden bed. We wanted more, but didn't have time to get them in before we needed to plant. So, last fall, we set to work building and filling beds, and spreading gravel around the beds. Here is the photo journey:

I didn't realize how sad this looked until just now!

The mountain of dirt!

The even heavier mountain of gravel! And did I mention that Weldon and I moved all of this ourselves? Well, a friend took the last of the dirt that we didn't need, but other than that...

We put weed block down first, then the gravel. A lot of work at the time, but it has really paid off! We've only had to pull weeds in one little corner of the walkway so far.

This is the most completed picture I have from last fall. We did more, as you will see in this year's pictures.

And I have to throw this in for grins! Cora was 10 months old, and eating dirt, something her big sister never would have done!