Sunday, May 1, 2011

Our garden after 6 weeks!!

 This has been so much fun for all of us! We can't believe how this thing has taken off! All along the fence we have red onions. In front of those are our sunflowers. Corn on each side! The big bushes with huge leaves are our yellow squash. The one on the left is much bigger than the one on the right. Next to each of those are 2 cucumber plants. They are really getting big. Cucumbers grow on a vine type plant, it creeps around trying to find something to latch onto! Of course the cages have tomatoes. The biggest one is cherry tomatoes. The other ones are coming along nicely! Can't wait for those!!! In the middle are 2 blueberry bushes and in the front is our strawberries. There is also carrots and cauliflower that we grew from seeds.
Jacob and Jordan go out every morning to see the garden. We have eaten many strawberries already. They are not big, but they are so sweet and yummy!


Yellow Squash
The flowers on this yellow squash plant are so pretty. Can you believe we are growing this??
Carrots
Cucumber
I'm really having to watch this cucumber vine. It's little tendrils really attach themselves to anything in it's path. I've had to unravel it from the blueberry bushes many times. I'm trying to see if it will grow up the tomato cage.

Beefsteak tomato
I can not wait till these ripen!!! I can taste them already!
Corn plant and Sunflowers

Strawberry plant-we have 4 of these
Our other Yellow Squash plant

Cherry Tomatoes!!!
Sunflowers-these are going to be much larger than last years crop!

Cauliflower-this is struggling a little.

  We'll be eating squash and Cherry tomatoes soon!!! We will keep you all posted. Happy Farming!!

How does our garden grow?? 2011

While Grandma and Grandpa were here over Spring Break, we planted a vegetable garden! Remember last year we grew Sunflowers. Well, this year we were much more ambitious!!
It was so fun getting all the plants with the kids. They picked out most everything! I added some things that I love, like LOTS of tomatoes. We are growing Sunflowers, red onions, 6 kinds of tomatoes, yellow squash, corn, cucumbers,carrots, cauliflower, blueberries and strawberries!!!
Here are the pictures of our garden's first day!

Ok, we've got all we need. Time to dig!!
Nicholas is keeping an eye on things
Farmer Jordan
Jordan decided to swim instead of dig!

Now everyone is on break!
Almost done, it just needs some flowers.

Done!! Grow garden grow!
 
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