Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The weather has been beautiful the past few days but it is supposed to get incredibly hot in the next few and unsettled. Hopefully no more tornadoes, enough devastation!

The past few days I have been incredibly busy in the garden. All that rain and then the heat brought so many weeds. So weeding and watering keeps us busy. I finally planted some of the pumpkins but still have some more to do. Everything seems to be doing well and growing away.

My cat BooBoo LOVES the garden. He stays down there with me wandering through the plants, occasionally stepping on them but for the most part he follows the paths. Last night he was down there with me for about 2 hours hiding behind the plants and hills and diving at dragonflies. There were hundreds and they were driving him nuts! He is a funny cat, I love him to death.

Our lawn is out of control, we've been mowing twice a week. Luckily my son, Cody is old enough and does all the mowing. I keep telling John that hey, the more we expand the garden, the less we have to mow! Less time, less gas at $4 a gallon.

Stay cool!!!

Friday, June 3, 2011

Friday and it is beautiful!

I am so happy it is Friday. For a four day work week (not actually, I have been working in the garden EVERY day but four days at my outside the home job) it has been a long week! Started Monday with torrential downpours and then very warm and sunny, onto hot and humid Tuesday and the horrible tornadoes in Massachusetts on Wednesday. Yesterday was incredibly windy, last night was cold and today is GORGEOUS! I can't wait to get out of here and run home and look at the garden. I love to see what has poked through the earth or inched up or sprouted a flower. I find this so exciting.

Our bed of onions are a good 6 inches high and look great. The pickling cukes I planted on Saturday already popped up two days ago. The peas and beans are going wild, the eggplants are flowering and we have tomatoes already. We have some really large tomato plants that my cat thinks are small trees and likes to flop under them. Luckily he is a runt and doesn't harm them. Our brand new raspberry bushes are starting to get leaves, I can't wait until we can actually get raspberries but we won't have a real harvest until next year.

My plans for the weekend are to get the last of the seeds in the ground - pumpkins and gourds. I have seeds for gigantic pumpkins, regular carving pumpkins and pie pumpkins. If they do well, we may even have a pumpkin picking event in the fall.

The heat wave was great for giving the garden a boost...unfortunately it boosted the weeds, too. So, I'll be weeding away this weekend. If time permits, I really would like to work on the pictures of the garden that I took. Then I will be posting them here for everyone to see.

Have a great weekend!

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

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