Green thumb (or brown, as the case may be)

I have had people ask for an update on the strawberries and garden. All of the strawberries are planted (I finished them when Keith was gone... each morning I planted about 150-200 plants) All the garden is planted-- at least all that is going to get done this year.

These are the tomatoes, eggplants, broccoli, and cauliflower

This is the strawberry patch. The light brown is the sections with 7 rows each. It is light brown because we added genuine, homegrown, back-shovelled, "sweet" smelling, rabbit manure. I say manure because it is a nicer word. :) I know it doesn't look like it but there really ARE strawberry plants there and growing.


One of the corn plants we got from the high school already has two ears on it.

Our potato patch. Need to have one 10 times the size... that isn't going to happen for lack of room.

The corn is as high as a grasshopper's eye, but it looks like it is climbing way up to the sky, or at least the top of the weeds that are behind them.

The watermelon and cantelope are in front of the corn. Never grown them before. Test watermelons, totermelons??

The spaghetti squash. Our family LOVES spaghetti squash. They eat it like spaghetti with sauce and parmesan cheese; the whole works. Shhhhhhh. No one tell them it is a vegetable. We had a spaghetti squash left over from last year that was getting a little bit.... shall we say, HAPPY. So we figured that we weren't out anything if they didn't grow and if they did, great! Keith planted a handful of seeds in each mound AND THEY ALL GREW!!! I had to go and thin them out. Yeah!! Spaghetti squash once a week, come fall!!!!

Oh, here is our corn again.

Top left is the spaghetti squash, then acorn squash, then zucchini. Growing up we lived in a place that grew zucchini so well you had to lock your car doors at church. We hope to have lots to share... and looks like we may succeed if the flowers are any indication.

This is everything else. I know it is hard to tell what we have here from the pictures. The tomatoes are in front of the weeds, to the right of them are the eggplants, then onions, then red and green cabbage. In front of the tomatoes are the peppers then cauliflower and broccoli. In front of all that is the rows of peas, beans, carrots, and beets. Sorry we have some many buckets, the kids like to water with them.

You can't see it becasue it isn't there yet, but we put up a rabbit fence to keep them critters out. Now we need to find a way to keep the birds and this guy out. This is the mom of a family of 4 that seems to graze through our garden twice a day. Jonas has designated himself the Deer Chaser and is kept busy.