Jun 06
Everyone,
Okay, so you guys know I have a garden right? This garden is producing some radishes! (Not that I eat them.) And I have baby squash growing! (Very excited for this one.)
Also, peas and carrots are growing. Along with corn, beans, tomatoes, and a bunch of spices.
But do you know what is annoying?
Watering.
This is a community garden, so a lot of things are on their time. Like installing water for us to use. That didn’t happen until last week. So I had been driving water from my house to the garden in my 32 gallon garbage can.
Then they installed the cistern and filled it! There was much rejoicing!
Except…they put it on the OTHER side of the garden. The first day I hauled bucket after bucket to the garden, taking almost 2 hours to water. (The boys love to help me at the garden.)
Then, the next time, I started with buckets but couldn’t take it any more. I borrowed a neighboring garden’s wheelbarrow and filled that up and hauled back and forth.
Today, I brought my garbage can and put it in the wheel barrow. I only had to fill it twice, which is much much better than what we were doing.
And it only took me an hour to water!
These better be some awesome vegetables.
At least it gets the kids outside!
Safire
Safiregarden 2011 garden
May 28
Everyone,
I had a great time today. I think Juice had a perfectly miserable time at first, but all of my day was great.
I left Juice with the kids and went for a drive. In the country. So pretty! I also visited a farm to look at their seedlings for my garden. I got PURPLE peppers. Right now it’s just a little plant plug, but I can’t wait to see what they grow into!
The farm was beautiful. And if I do a garden next year, I’m buying all my plants from this farm dude. He was fun to talk to.
Then I did our weekly grocery shopping. Alone. Awww! I got to browse around for better deals, and marvel at something like this.
What IS that? Whatever it is, you can eat it. Anyone want to try?
I came home from my explorations to find Juice unhappy and stressed at the kids. He said the only reason we have children after today was nap time.
So after that blessed nap, we decided to take everyone on a bike ride to our garden.
Isn’t it pretty? I like the rocks lining my beds. On the right, we have carrots (the big dirt patch top right), peas (which are dying, not sure why), and beans. Tomatoes, tomatillos, pumpkins, and the kid area of the garden (the patch of dirt they can dig in) that you can’t see.
On the left, corn and cucumbers on the top, the herb bed with cilantro (hopefully), basil, and parsley. Then comes peppers, lettuce, a spot for spinach which I think I’m going to skip this year, squash and radishes.
My goal, to be able to make this dressing from what I grow in the garden. If I can do that once, I’ll be happy. Of course, it would be nice to have peas and cucumbers too, but we’ll see.
Of course, since we rode our bikes to the garden, we had to ride home. I never knew I lived in such a HILLY area. Man, pulling the boys in their trailer is HARD. And Butterfly has a trail-a-bike which is like having a 70 pound waggly tail behind you. You better have some good balance or she’ll just tip you right over.
Safire
Safiregarden 2011 garden
