First Harvest of 2012

Went outside the other day

to get the garden prepped for planting

Found out we already had stuff growing.

I didn't eat them though....a bit too sketch for me.

Stella did, however, eat the dirt.

Yummy! 

Can you say...

Overgrown?

Meet the Yao Ming of pickling cucumbers.

I love pickles.

But

HOLY COW

this is too much pickle.

our garden

Our garden is thriving!!

It's actually been really fun gardening this year.

I say that like we've done it before--nope 1st try.

It really hasn't been that much work either. 

Initially you need the better part of a day

But since then it really is minimal work.

It's really fun to see how big your plants get.

And it's awesome when you have fruit to pick.

When we went to Palisades Lake with my family a couple weeks ago

My mom and dad made fajitas for about 60 people

And our garden provided all the peppers.

We've definitely learned some things this year.

And we should probably write them down,

So next year we can remember

Our successes and failures.

I recommend you all try gardening.

It sounds like such an "old people" thing to do

But it's fun.

And you definitely get more than you pay for.

May 24th

What the crap????

Our poor poor vegtables!!

It's my mom's bday tomorrow

I was going to buy her flowers to plant in the garden

But due to her recent surgery

and due to the weather today.......

Now I'm thinking maybe I should  get her something else.

To prevent this....

veggie tales

Since we've lived in a condo our whole married life

We haven't attempted the vegtable garden thing

But this year
Our stake presidency decided to do garden plots
On some land by our chruch that is owned by our last bishop

We signed up for one

Knowing nothing about veggie gardening

But we talked to Andrew's dad (a farm boy)

And decided to give it a shot

I read online that in Utah

You should have most things planted by May 15th

(one day after we got assigned our plot)

So we woke up early on Saturday the 15th 

And got our garden all planted

If all goes well we will have carrots, red onions,

2 kinds of peppers, 3 kinds of tomatoes

pickling cucumbers, and lots of peas!!

Andrew was most excited about planting corn

But apparently the die hard gardeners of our stake

Don't want any corn growers

Because they think the corn will shade their veggies

So we opted not to plant corn

And not to be the hated gardeners of the stake

I'm most excited about the cucumbers!!!!

I want to grow LOTS so I can make pickles with Granny B.

If I fail, I know she will have tons of cucumbers in her garden.

But if I succeed....I could have bottles and bottles

Of my VERY OWN pickles.

Andrew keeps planning to sabotage my cucumber plants.

Because he HATES pickles with a passion.

grow veggies grow!!!