Goin' Green

I told Makayle, our 7 year old grand daughter, that I would take a few pictures of our garden for her. I blogged several weeks ago about the battle we were having with all of the rodents and birds eating our garden. Finally, we are getting some vegetables!

This is a picture from the end of the garden, similar to one taken a couple of months ago (for comparison).


Don planted corn along some of the edges of the garden, and his corn is now getting ears (look at the bottom 1/3 of the plant and you can see the ear of corn growing). Next to the corn are some cucumbers, and then there is a walnut tree. There is a grape vine is on the back side of the walnut tree.


Those are several tomato plants (which have been producing) back behind the giant pumpkin plant in the foreground (and more corn along the back edge).


These are our pepper plants (jalapeno, Anaheim, and sweet bell peppers).

This is one of the squash plants. We have gotten several zucchini and yellow crooked neck squash so far. Today I hope to make some zucchini bread (if I can find a few minutes) to give to our home teachers when they come over.

Don put the garden on a drip irrigation system so that it gets watered automatically (which has been a time saver for me). Keeping the weeds out has been a constant battle, too. But we are glad for the fresh vegetables, and glad to have enough to share with friends.