My Garden...Do you have one? (Pics included)

After years of not having a garden (because of pesky little dogs that like to dig;)) we finally decided to plant one this year.
I'm very happy with the results so far!

This is a picture in the beginning of June:
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And this is a few pictures from this evening:
Boy has it GROWN!
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We have tomatoes, green-red-orange and yellow bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, hot cherry peppers, mild banana peppers, beans, cucumbers, zucchini, snap peas and many different types of lettuce.
I wish you all lived around me...I'd share the wealth!

more to come....

Here's a few things I've made with my bounty so far:
Lots of zucchini stuff;)
Zucchini Bread
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...9/P7080457.jpg
Fried Zucchini
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Salad with...you guessed it...zucchini!
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And tonight I canned some cucumbers for pickles
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Oh and we've had some fried green tomatoes too.

Soon I hope to be canning some tomatoes and beans!

I hope you enjoyed my garden...Do any of you have one? If so please share!

WoW!

That looks like some really YUMMIE stuff!!

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Wow, Anna! Your garden is beautiful! And everything looks sooo yummy! :D I can't garden to save my life :( so, no I don't have one. Just last year and this year I am figuring out how to plant flowers, so maybe someday i will graduate to vegetables. ;)

Looks fantastic! Bet it all tastes SO much better than what you buy.

It looks great. You should be very proud. Are those dill or sweet pickles you have made? Can I have the recipe?

I'll be right over! Those pix made me hungry! No garden for me. My parents had a garden every year when we lived in the country for a while and they didn't make it an enjoyable experience for me. Years ago, my late friend taught me how to plant flowers and I still do that but I just have never wanted to grow veggies. Your garden is delightful, though. :)

When you said garden, well, you know me, I immediately thought flowers, sigh, but it is just those vegetables. Actually I don't want to get as into it as you have but I do wish we had some tomato plants. I tried some last year but I guess the place I chose was not the best as they didn't do well at all.

Fried green tomatoes?? I will be down, oh, how about tonight. No one at my house likes them - so I very rarely make them - and especially since I don't have a tomato plant - but sometimes the stores do have them or I beg them off a neighbor or my mom. I love fried green tomatoes. You do have Miracle Whip don't you? It's not a fried green tomato sandwich without Miracle Whip!!!

Great job!

I had my first zucchini this week, made it fried just like yours: YUM!!!

Er . . . how the heck to you keep your garden so weed free? Mine doesn't look nearly as "neat" as yours does. GOOD WORK!

Your garden looks great!!
We had a garden a few years ago. It was nice. Bruce keeps talking about doing it again but never gets around to it. He did plow up the garden area earlier but never got to planting anything. It's nice because you don't have to go to the store, you just go outside to do your shopping. Bruce would tell me "I'm going to go shopping" while he walked into the backyard. LOL :D

I don't want to embarrass myself so I won't post photos....I have peppers, zucchini, tomatoes and green onion, basil and radishes.


Do you have suggestions/recipes for pickling tomatoes?

Thanks!

I love gardens, I am impressed and jealous. We always had a garden growing up and I loved it. I just don't have any place for one now, I don't even have grass in the backyard, its all pool and a trampoline pad.

There is nothing like a fresh tomatoe in the summer.

Don't listen to Richard his garden is pretty awesome also.

I grow herbs. They look pretty, smell good, don't need weeding, and most taste good. (lavender I haven't tasted...) And they grow like crazy!

Rosemary
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...g?t=1247864010
Lavender
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...g?t=1247864159
and....catnip, mint, thyme, parsley and chives
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cat optional!

I really want to grow rosemary, I tried once and killed it. What's your secret?

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I really want to grow rosemary, I tried once and killed it. What's your secret?

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Really? It is like a weed here. On one of the walking trails it grows wild. I have to cut it back about once a month.

Sun and not too much water. It is a Mediterranean plant and should be treated that way.