The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

We've been extremely busy and so our garden had gone 2 days without water. Uh, yeah, not good!

It doesn't look so bad from far away, but up close it's just sad.Here are our Cherry Tomatoes. I can't wait!Yellow Squash is a beautiful sight!Here's the ugly part. Look at those sad wilted plants. By the way, those feathery looking ones aren't Bell Peppers like I thought they were. Nope, after this incident, I pulled them out. Guess what, they're Carrots. Can we say "Oops!"Our Grapes made it to the buckets. We are going to try and get them in the ground soon.Here are 2 of my 5 Cucumbers. They are simply beautiful. Here are the Grape Tomatoes.My Big Boy Tomatoes have at least 8 on each plant.Zucchini is still growing, not real well though.This picture is to show you how big the stalk is on my Tomatoes.This picture is to show you how tall they are. That is Dale in the background, just in case you can't tell who or what that is.

June 5, 2010 Botanica Beauty

I took James and my mom, and met up with Daniel and Elizabeth to go to Botanica Gardens. My mom helped me watch James while I took pregnancy pictures of Elizabeth. The weather was lovely, as were the roses!James was able to get real close to the butterflies this time.I must have taken over 100 pictures of Dan and Elizabeth. This one was my favorite. It was also their one year anniversary.

How We Truly Are!

I was peaking over at my brother's blog, it reminded me of last year. My family had professional pictures taken. As I was browsing, I came across this one and laughed, "Yep! that's me and my brothers when we get together." I don't think anyone bought this one but I love it! Every time I see it it makes me miss them! Good Times!

Memorial Day Celebration

We decided to take my parents to Botanica Garden for the opening day of the Butterfly House. Since Clara and Grandpa share a love for butterflies, we thought this would be the perfect time to go. Botanica also had their Memorial Day Celebration going on, with $3 admission (which brought everyone out), live Community Band (which was absolutely awesome--they played all sorts of patriotic songs), and FREE ice cream (which we seemed to miss--darn!). However, the butterflies didn't disappoint.James was too tired for the butterflies, but daddy was all smiles!Some butterflies are rather plain, but still pretty.Clara loved the zebra butterflies-the yellow and black ones.Here is a picture of one on the bottom flower.Dale and I bought Old Navy American Flag t-shirts for my mom and dad so we could take a fun picture. It was a little bit humid if you ask me, but Dale didn't seem to mind. If you ask him, he thinks I'm just crazy.We had a great day!

New to the Garden

So, the cucumbers have become a problem. We have wanted to get some kind arch trellis going. Lowes has them for $59-$160. Needless to say, we decided to fashion one ourselves. With my idea and Dale's expertise, we came up with something really cool (hopefully it works).We took some fence posts and drove them into the ground, then attached a fencing material to them. Then we connected the other end to our extra piece of "hog fence" that is resting along side the fence - as you can see in the picture below.We had to make 2 arches because we have 2 cucumbers along the fence line. This is a shorter version of what we made. We didn't arch this because their wasn't a fence close enough to attach this to. We figure the cucumber can just vine it's way up and down this post.My zucchini is looking kind of pathetic lately.We relocated our strawberries into round pots so that they can have more room to grow. These pots used to have Bell Peppers in them, but they were in some poor soil and weren't doing so good. So, we relocated them in the compost pile.Clara has lots of fun being outside, playing in the water.As you can tell by the "dirt circles" on the ground, we've done some rearranging. We have had to "thin stuff out" lately. All the stuff that wasn't doing so good, we gotten rid of. I also had to go through my densely planted tomatoes and trim them up. My marigolds also got thinned out as well. It's a good thing my neighbor's favorite flower is a marigold. I gave her a few.

Overall, our garden is still getting bigger. The tomatoes are now up to my shoulders. I am so excited to see how many we get this year.