I DEDICATE THIS INTRO TO OUR MOTHERS @ FATHERS FOR WHOM WITHOUT THEM WE COULDN'T HAVE LEARNED FROM THERE WISE KNOWLEDGE OF GARDENING:
i hope to see this pass onward to our kids @grand kids for generations to come to keep what was instilled in us a tradition to come in a part of survival and family memories :
when we would have bare feet in mountain piles of manure
go to the dessert mountains get rock for building, making the cement and foundation
digging footers and trenches for walls or sprinkler system or simple little drip hose lines to resemble snakes .Digging 7x7 wholes for pine trees and climbing to the top to water so as the dessert heat wouldn't burn them .and planting pines naming each of them after the kids for my mom.they also had plenty fruit trees .These are just a few things they taught us as chores along with other lessons in life. only back then we thought of them as chores until we grew to realize they were lessons and memories to keep dear to our hearts special lessons in life we take for granted .
THANK YOU MOM-DAD for teaching me these lessons , i use them today and think about you thousand miles away .
We try every year to grow something new ,this year its celery, strawberries (although i used to plant strawberries when lived down river) and kohlrabi's ( not sure if its spelled correctly).We enjoy very much how we save money growing our own vegetables and herbs. Its a great satisfaction as well as pleasing to the eye and very therapeutic to the soul. Decided to try this blogging just for a little while to see how far it takes me and to see if blogging will be easier than FB with pictures. I find it hard to download pictures one at a time on FB takes forever and seems to take up most my page instead of loading in one area. So we will see how this turns out after my preview so bare with me this is my first time .
First we had zucchini and then cucumbers and jalapenos , then we went on vacation to Kentucky (another blog story i will share ) anyways when we got back , we had more surprises awaiting our arrival for some exciting harvesting in our garden . It has been raining for 3 days now (which is ok with me less i have to do lol takes 2 hours to water everything ) and everything has doubled in size .
Unfortunately some of our bell peppers along with a few other plants got hit with i think is eighther moles or chipmunks (pesky varmints) but a few survived ,we will next year re-arrange our planting strategy.
I hope you enjoy the pic. i have to share here of our fruits of labor sorta speak , it is def. worth the task and will always enjoy every year learning new crops to plant.
celery
spinach
this year something is eating at it
grouping with basil-rosemary-and halevera peppers
green-purple basil with dill creeping up the back
bell peppers
bib @leaf lettuce
broccoli
burp less cucumber
cauliflower
cherry tomatoes
chives-halavera peppers-
blue African @ purple
cilantro went to seed (didn't do so well this year )
reg. cucumber
eggplant
flowering kale
habeneros
jalapenos
kohlrabi
leaks (they went to seed)
marjoram
roma tomatoes
rosemary
strawberries
winter( or) summer savory for some reason cant remember
summer squash
swiss chard
tomatios
red tomatoes
tripple leaf parsley
Its alot to post i know our garden got alot bigger. Wich is why i keep hinting we should get 3 acre property , i guess we will just run out of back yard . All kidding aside we live on 3 plots of land so we have fairly big back yard . I hope you enjoyed my introduction to our garden .
George does the major tilling and planting i do the harvesting and cooking so team work makes it fun .
and finally the clouds started to break. I knew it was a good day when a heart appeared and the sun tried to shine threw . The grass was calf high and the weeds overtook the flowers , it was a day to catch up ,between the rainy days ahead. 
The hummingbirds were swiftly hoovering ,butterflies were delicately landing. The water fountains appeared to sound loudly in tune with the chimes threw out . 
