Green peppers are getting big, I've picked 2 so far for fried potatoes. So yummy!
Jalepeno Peppers are doing great. Put some of these in our fried potatoes and they were almost to hot! Also made hummus the other day and added one and it was soooooo good.
Hungarian Hot peppers, I can these for pizza and sandwiches...but also add them to our salsa that we make every year.
Tomatoes and the corn... I staked the romas so you can spot them. Last year I didn't and they took forever to pick. Plus I think this is the only thing I would've changed about planting the garden this year....I would've planted them farther apart. Owell, this year is really about figuring it out myself. Last year I was a bit overwelmed, Papaw and I planted over 100 tomato plant and boy, oh, boy is that alot. This year about 50 and I hope we'll be able to pick them without stepping on whole bunch...we'll see. Live and learn, right.
I have my eye on this one...it will be the first batch of fried green tomatoes and it will probably be this week! Happy days ahead.
Close up of the roma's they are doing awesome!
Cucumbers, green onion, and you can see the beet tops right behind them. I just put straw under the tomatoes the other day, it worked so well last year by keeping the moisture in the ground and keeping the weeds back, also keeps the tomatoes off the dirt so they won't rot before you have a chance to pick them, but I had enough left for under the cucumbers so hopefully they do the same thing for them. I made the best sweet pickles last year. Some I added a habenaro pepper and they came out sooooo good!
Corn and my trusty plastic owl that we got as a gift from Pam and Ron. The critters have been staying away so far...
This is our small bed, it's exploding! 1 cherry tomato, some lettuce that still needs thinned out, carrots, and about 8 eggplants (fingerling, classic and Dennisa gave me a ghost plant, which will be a white eggplant) so excited to see everything do so well.
Baby eggplant, won't be long now! Baba gnouche here I come!
Close up of our beautiful lettuce.
Can't leave out the fruit trees, peaches are getting so big. I hope everything doesn't get ripe at the same time!
Pears...again, getting so big. Not pictured are the apples, we have 3 trees and only one did fairly ok this year. I think the frost hit them again. I had to go out in early March and spray the peach, pear trees down to get the frost off but I had a hose emergency and it was spraying me more than the trees so I never made it back to the apple trees, I was frozen! :0)
And I couldn't forget our Scare Jane, her hair is a bit messy these days but I really think she's helping keep the critters away too. She's so pretty. Ok, well this is what I've been working so hard on and now I'm back to the strawberries that I've weeded for the 3rd time this year, they are blooming again which I'm happy about because I don't have enough jelly yet. Jim takes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches everyday so I need MORE! Also the raspberries, blackberries and blueberries are in...I've picked the raspberries once, the blackberries none and the blueberries are almost finished...shoo wee, I'm telling you. I'll figure out a system on how to keep up by the end of the year...I hope. I have to tell you though this is my most favorite thing to do and it is also the hardest working job I've ever done. Papaw said that he would do something everyday and I believe that that's exactly the only way to keep up with everything is to do something everyday! He also said that the reason his garden was so big is that he really enjoyed watching everything grow and I've learned that it's my exact feelings too. I get really excited to go out there and see my beet are already the size of a walnut and the beans are blooming...there's nothing like it and I'm really loving my life right now and it also makes me feel like I'm giving my boys the best possible food ever. Good gardening everybody and thanks for letting me ramble.
