Yes, it is August but we started our garden in June after Weber Wedding Weekend.
Soon we will have tomatoes coming out of every corner of the garden, but for now I will appreciate and love the one orange baby, my first in 2012.
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Garden Number Two- Planted
My hard working man…I tried to use this machine this weekend and it kept creeping away from me. I am MUCH better at bringing glasses of water out to He Who Makes Me Smile while he tills the land.
Future cucumbers, corn and peas. Yum!
Meanwhile, back in Garden Number One…
Our tomatoes and spinach and lettuce are looking good! The tomatoes nearly doubled in size in one week and He Who Makes Me Smile added supports to all 10 of our plants. Also added—green and yellow beans.
It appears that the sunflower seeds I haphazardly planted along the side of the barn are not growing. And the strawberries never made it either. I have plans for one more garden area to be planted with another round of lettuce and spinach and perhaps few other late summer veggies and I still need to get the herb garden going. (With all those tomatoes we planted I NEED basil!)
I know how much I’ve wanted a garden over the years…and how much I have wanted to be back out in the country someday, but my oh my I did not expect the instinct to hit me so fast and so hard. When we first talked about a garden He Who Made Me Smile asked if I would weed every week…and I laughed and said maybe every other week. Right now, I can’t WAIT to get *home* on the weekend and get my hands dirty! I need to check on my babies and see that they are growing. I jump right in with my long pants tucked into my socks and long sleeve shirt and covered in bug spray (and I do mean covered, holy mosquito country!) and start digging and pulling and planting even in the hot sun! And we all know how much I dislike the hot sun…but I find it relaxing. And rewarding. Who knew? Well, I guess deep down inside I knew, but I didn’t realize exactly HOW quickly this city dwelling gal would get back to her roots.
Tomatoes!
Wooo! Our tomatoes made it past the early blight symptoms!
I feel like a proud mama. I keep wishing He Who Makes Me Smile would send me mid-week updates of how our babies are growing…the first thing I do once I come home on the weekends (after giving Henri some kisses from mama…) is check on the garden. Yes, I’m becoming a garden nerd.
