Friday, May 25, 2012

Our garden

Last November, with the help of "growing" hormones and my "farmer" friend, we started a garden.
Firstly I started my pots of herbs, I love fresh herbs.
Oregano/Thyme

Cilantro, ready to die!!

Chives!
 I try to fix his hair every day, but he's a lost case.

Basil, I had two of these and then planted some in the front yard as well. Yum!
I kept making that chicken recipe Weston and Megan made for us.

Poinsettia, I found one and some how it is still alive,


Tomato.
Funny story, we didn't plant any tomato plants, this guy just came from my Mom's veggie blend that she would feed to her flowers.

Lechuga!!!!
We didn't know growing Romaine was going to be so easy. We had tons of salads.

Pepecorinos, they never grew properly, they were supposed to be sweet, they are ultra spicy! and the Jalapenos are sweet!
That little guy on the right is a bell pepper plant, it gave us two little peppers.

Peruvian and Venezuelan peppers, we have seen a couple now, but not as many as we hoped.

Cantaloupe and Watermelon. We didn't really prepared this soil but we have had a couple of very sweet watermelons and 3 cantaloupes, one HUGE one, about 4Lb, really sweet. The rest were eaten by the HUGE NASTY slugs.

My little niece, Sweet P.



Some flowers from our front yard.


We learned a lot, and hope this year will be better, I'm thinking we will give peppers another shot, we eat too many of them. Also, black beans....yum! (can I grow those?)

2 comments:

Linda said...

Oh my goodness - I'm jealous. Our garden is just getting started. It looks like you have green thumbs. Canteloupe??? Watermelon??? Those are the advantage of a lllloooonnnnnggggg growing season. WOW!!

The flowers remind me of Hawaii - hibiscus and plumeria - Don't you love its smell? We had a plumeria tree in our yard in Hawaii and made leis with them. YUM!!!

Dawnie said...

AH!! Belky! I was rolling at your chives. I've tried herbs and failed spectacularly! I'm so glad your garden was such a success!