Front Garden and Back Final Additions

We added a Wishing Well to help the back yard look good to potential buyers.

This is a grass plant I bought for the corner of the yard in the spring. It has really grown this year. When it rains, it perks up higher then the fence.

We are up for sale! Do you want to buy a house?

Front garden bed is growing really well. We added the bricks in the spring. Wow-did they ever help me keep the weeds out. We planted 3 kinds of flowers, and then 2 other kinds came back from last year.

Here is the front entryway and the rose bush. I just watered, can you tell? That white square on the second step is just where the water didn't hit the cement. We also mulched really well two times this year.

Final Box Post

In getting ready to move, we haven't spent as much time on our boxes as we would like. Here are their final pictures.

Box one got a make-over to help the house sell better. We up-rooted the tomato plants and planted some flowers and oriental peppers in the back and some radishes up front. I was limited on time so I didn't thin the radishes like they needed, but oh well, they were just for show anyway. I chose to plant radishes because they grow so fast. They sprouted in just 4 days!
Box 2 needs some tender loving care. It is the end of the season for the cucumbers and they all need to be up-rooted but that will be the next home-owners project. I'm keeping the vines up for show. The carrots are also for show. We still have one tomato plant there in the back that is producing. It has a lot of flowers so it may come back now that the mean summer heat is gone.

Here is box 3. The bell pepper are still producing! And the canolope is doing just fine. As you see, that is pretty much it. Yes, those are green beans in the back, but they are non-producing. Our rabbit even stopped eating them. I wonder why??


And Box 4. So sad, our corn just didn't do well. It burned in the summer heat. If I was staying, I would have this box cleared by now. Yet I don't want an empty box for showing so I put a scare crow out there and am leaving the stalks up as a fall decoration.

Bell Peppers and Zuchinne

Our Bell Peppers are doing well right now. They are not producing very much, but the few pepper we are getting are good. We have red peppers and yellow peppers getting their color and we ate a really sweet green pepper the other day. Our Zucchini had a worm attack it and kill most of my plants. I killed the worms by digging them out of the stems of the plants with a pocket knife and then sprinkling dust around the area. A few plants couldn't take the stress and died. Here are a few more pictures of peppers:

Below: I thought I was getting another Zucchini, but this morning, I realized that this is cantaloupe! It grew on one of the crawlers and is hiding under my Zucchini plants. My cantaloupe has lots of flowers on it right now, but this is the only fruit I've found that is larger then a penny.

Below is some fresh Salsa (yes in a Prego jar) that I made from our tomatoes. Curtis recited the recipe from memory. He said he made it a lot when he served in California. It is pretty good. My tomatoes are still producing nicely.

Nothin sweeter then a peach!

This is Anne's hand.

Our Little Tree.

I went out a picked our first peach today. It was juicy, sweet, and ripe and dripped all over the place! I was holding Jane when I picked it and she was doing summer-saults in my arms trying to get it from me. So after I got a picture I let her have it and she immediately took a big, nice bite! She loved it. I put her in her high chair to eat the rest so it wouldn't ruin her outfit or the carpet.

Box 4 Disaster!

Don't you hate it when Pessimist are right?

I had a neighbor tell me not to garden because Oklahoma gardens usually turn out in heartbreak. Well, this morning all our corn was flat from the rain last night and I had to uproot all my potatos. They were infected with fungus and rot. I noticed the leaves yellowing earlier, but hoped they could fend it off. No way.

I did manage to get a few potatoes. But I found a few mushy, slimy ones as well (below). They nearly made me gag. I almost don't dare eat the good ones! Infact I threw away some healthy looking ones simply because they were touching the slimy ones. Gross!!

Here is Jane helping me with the Potato harvest. Don't worry, I didn't let her get near the icky ones. On the grass, the good potatos look a little like Easter Eggs don't they??

This is the end of the story for our potatoes this year.

Starting to Yield

The Corn went flat in the heavy rain last week, but it stood back up when the sun came back out. The potatoes in front of it are giving us the tiny, yummy baby potatoes right now.

Last night we decided to have omelets and we picked a banana pepper and cut it up. It tasted great. We also have ripening tomatoes.

May 25 Color

Okay, Anne was out of town the week I took these photos. I planed to posting an update in her absence, but this is now a little out of order since I waited so long to upload the the pictures.

Joy!