Maters!

This is the 'after' picture. Still we have tomatoes that I will have to find a home for. I have learned one valuable lesson on my first attempt to start plants from seed. You really don't have to plant every seed in the pack......

This is the 'before' picture. We have a few cucumber and a couple of rows of okra. This is a small plot that is a work in progress. I should have started preparing the soil last fall.

Eggplant

I know I really shouldn't be using space on veggies I'm not so fond of - but honestly, is a garden really a garden if it has no eggplant?

Beets - finally!

I know this isn't the best photo ever but I couldn't help it! I planted beets in March and they never came up. I've been planting beets ALL MY LIFE and they NEVER come up. I was starting to get a complex. So, here they are - my first beets! Now, let's just hope they survive.

My first squash blossom!

I am soo excited! The red wasp on the timber was gathering some pollen when I arrived. He don't like my company or was finished because he left. Today's garden chores will be to transplant tomatoes into a larger garden I have tilled. Will post pictures of before and after later today or tomorrow.

Yawn....

Can you say good life?? And yeah, sure, that is a hot tub on the back deck, but it don't work at this time. I was just waiting for this little fellow to sit up and say, "Hey, lady, don't you wish you could lay around in the sun all day like me?" OK, I admit it, I'm jealous!

Dinner tonight!

Fresh lettuce, spinach, asparagus and radishes. Sounds like a salad to me!

I love kale! We never grew this when I was a child and I would love to know if my great grandmother has ever had it. She dearly loved turnip greens. I think she would have liked kale, too. I miss her - all the wonderful knowledge she had about gardening, sewing and just life in general. She lived to be almost 100. Just thinking of her makes me smile. :)

Radish harvest

I've been harvesting radishes, lettuce, kale and spinach for a few weeks now. These are the Cherry Belle variety from Burpee. I've been wanting to try the Easter Egg variety and never think about it when ordering seeds. I think the grandchildren might try them. They did try these and found it a bit too hot for their liking. I think they are GREAT and am munching on them right now!