our garden

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

okra-green beans-@romain lettuce

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 .