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Tomato Pickin’

by | May 31, 2008 | From My Garden

Yesterday, we extracted the tomatoes from the “jungle”.  It takes a little bit of perseverance, you know.  🙂  I never said it was easy to pick tomatoes in a jungle, I just said you’d get lots of them.  lol Cary, my husband helped reach some of them...

Shade project continued…

by | May 29, 2008 | Gardening Tips

We will put the shade up tomorrow on the tomatoes, but in the meantime we have been preparing our shade screen material with these grommets for the corners. We’ll use locking ties to attach them to the poles that we have already set up…  Today the...

Shade Project

by | May 21, 2008 | From My Garden

My boys have been busy this morning getting the shade project underway. They are just getting the poles in the ground because I don’t want it shaded yet.  The temps are going way down and so we’ll get the shade cloth up on my plants next Monday when the...

Need New Recipe

by | May 21, 2008 | From My Garden

With the temperatures being around 110 for the last couple of days, I am getting a bunch of squash and eggplants.  It seemed like they doubled in size overnight.  This is what I picked this morning. 1 very large Zucchini, 2 Eggplants, 3 Yellow Squash, 2 Tomatoes, 2...

Ahhhhh, Shade

by | May 20, 2008 | Gardening Tips

With the temps being so hot, like 110, my tomatoes were needing some shade.  So today, the kids and I went up to Lowe’s and bought a package of white sun screen fabric, which came in a roll of 6′ x 15′.  You can also have it cut to the length you...

My Dad’s Garden Photos

by | May 19, 2008 | Fellow Gardener's Photos

I was visiting with my dad this weekend and took some pictures of what he’s growing.  I’m inspired to definately have a strawberry patch next year! And then there’s the grapevine… A very ripe tomato… Yellow Pears And a bunch of green...

Eggplants, woohoo!

by | May 19, 2008 | From My Garden

I think it’s great.  My children are not so sure about them.  They think they are cool looking, but I mentioned that I was going to cook them tonight and they looked at me kind of funny.    My 8 year old son really enjoyed the challenge of whipping out his...

It rained, it really did!

by | May 15, 2008 | From My Garden, How to Start A Garden

Well, sort of… We got really excited and then it stopped after 30 second of sprinkling…..oh well, maybe next time. My hired boys did a great job and almost completed their/my project today of clearing the rocks. I’m contemplating on whether to keep...