a few words about the garden

Our garden is three 8 foot by 4 foot boxes in the back yard. Sort of non-traditional, because I didn't want a bunch of rows. I want it to be pretty too. I love walking through the vegetable gardens at Deanna Rose because I think they are beautiful. I don't have as much space, so we do what we can. They are not as pretty as I'd like, but I think that takes practice too. Anyway, this year I let #1 and #2 plant one of the boxes all by their selves. We had lettuce and spinach, which are done now. Some watermelons, there are at least two growing, we hope they are good. A tomato plant, a pepper plant, which is being dwarfed by the zinnias, and a few volunteer bean plants that reseeded form last year. One variety is a really fun long been. The beans get about 18 inches long. I've heard them called noodle beans, #2 loves to say that. They have a really sweet flavor and are just fun. They didn't do so hot last year, but the one plant that came up this year is doing excellent. There is also some basil that reseeded, and some miniature pumpkins.

The rest of the garden has tomatoes, peppers, edamame (soybeans--I almost forgot to plant these), green beans, cukes, cilantro, dill, parsley, chives, and some flowers. I also planted a cinderella pumpkin, the vine looks beautiful, but I havent' seen any pumpkins yet. We also have several watermelons growing from last years compost. I let them get overripe before they got picked. So far this year I've picked one underripe one. Eventually we'll figure it out. I think I know what to look for now.

It has been an excellent year for beans. I think they are about done though. I planted the Jade variety, they were really tasty.

I have yet to have a ripe tomato from my garden this year. There are Lots of green ones though, hopefully we won't have to wait too much longer.

Cinderela Pumpkin: i've heard they make tasty pies