Q: How Does Your Garden Grow?

A: Hopefully better than last year's!

We are trying our hand at gardening again, but this year we got an earlier start and hope to have better results than last summer. We planted long beans, watermelons, okra and carrots this weekend. We have a few more things we might try in pots. Can't wait to see what happens!

 

 

One of my favorite things about having a garden is watching Spencer water it each morning. It's a nice little ritual and peaceful way to start the day. Stay tuned for updates!

Garden Update

We found this little guy growing in our garden this week. For those of you keeping score, we now have three yellow squash and this little watermelon (how cute is that?). The squash are growing really fast - we hope they won't be ready for harvest until we get back from vacation.

Our Efforts Have Not Been Squashed

Our gardening experiment is still going strong. The yellow squash have huge blossoms, the acorn squash are just starting to blossom, and the watermelons have some small flowers and curly vines shooting out, too. Still hoping we have something to harvest in another 60 days or so. But even if we don't, we have had so much fun tending the garden and we will definitely plant a fall garden on schedule.

Gardening Update

Wow! We've had some major sprouting in less than a week. The marigolds and zinnias are growing (not sure which is which) and the beans are taking off like crazy. The leaves were just starting to form yesterday and this morning they were huge. The rosemary isn't doing anything, but 3 outta 4 ain't bad.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Today Spencer and I tried our luck at planting some seeds. We planted rosemary, zinnia and marigolds in pots and put some green beans in an egg carton to see if they will sprout. I've never had a green thumb and I don't even know if we did it right, but hopefully in a few weeks something will happen...at least it was a fun experiment and an excuse to play in dirt.