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

**anna_66** · 07-15-2009, 08:21 PM

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:

And this is a few pictures from this evening:
Boy has it GROWN!

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....

**anna_66** · 07-15-2009, 08:26 PM

Here's a few things I've made with my bounty so far:
Lots of zucchini stuff

Zucchini Bread

Fried Zucchini

Salad with...you guessed it...zucchini!

And tonight I canned some cucumbers for pickles

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!

**Cinder & Smoke** · 07-15-2009, 11:25 PM

WoW!

That looks like some really YUMMIE stuff!!

**Cookiebaker** · 07-15-2009, 11:47 PM

Wow, Anna! Your garden is beautiful! And everything looks sooo yummy!

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.

**Killearn Kitties** · 07-16-2009, 03:54 AM

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

**Marigold2** · 07-16-2009, 06:19 AM

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

**Randi** · 07-18-2009, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by Killearn Kitties

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

Ditto!

But the soil looks so dry - how do you do it! You must water a lot.

I don't have a garden, but we do grow various herbs in the yard - for everyone.

I've twice planted Lavender on John's grave, but it died.

Now, there's a little Willow tree.

**Momto4FemaleFelines** · 09-01-2009, 05:34 PM

Anna, what a great garden!!!
You grow much of the same things my husband grows.
Your fried zucchini looks wonderful!
Have you ever tried zucchini puffs? How about oven-fried eggplant?

This year I've been experimenting by throwing diced zucchini, peppers, eggplant into the crock pot and adding different things like salad dressings for the "juice", or creamed soups, spaghetti sauce and macaroni. Everything has been different and good!

I myself do a bit of flower gardening although I must admit, since becoming a Philadelphia Phillies Phan, getting the computer, getting older and having 5 cats to care for...My flower gardening has taken a back seat.

**RICHARD** · 03-12-2010, 08:41 AM

It's time for a set of new garden stories.

I was doing some weeding and am going to clear out the stuff around my pepper plants.

I have cucumbers, dill, coriander and two kinds of tomato seed to start!

I am going to get more beets and radishes-those were my experiments last year!

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ANyone with compost heap hints?

**Momto4FemaleFelines** · 03-12-2010, 08:52 AM

I wonder if we ought to start a new 2010 Gardening thread to make it easier to get to current posts? (just a suggestion)

I've started some cleaning up of the yard but I'm not very motivated this year. My crocus are blooming, tulips, daff's, and hyacinths are poking out of the ground.

My husband started his seeds in the cellar. He puts them on the heater for bottom heat to start then under a grow light til he can put them outside for a couple days of hardening up and finally into the garden. Quite a few of the seeds are up...tomatoes, peppers. I can't keep track of everything he plants. He burnt down the old asparagus growth the other day.

I'll be able to share pictures as the season really gets going.

**Marigold2** · 03-12-2010, 07:03 PM

I have started my seeds in the basement as well. Hubby built me a grow light shelf years ago and I so enjoy this hobby. I plant the seeds 1/31
in honor of my grandmother. Mine are doing great and am looking forward to the first week in May when it's time to plant them outside.
Your veggies all look great. You have such a green thumb, not I take that back you're whole body is green.

**Momto4FemaleFelines** · 03-12-2010, 07:08 PM

I have a LOT of work to get on with the young snake plants I started from leaf cuttings. I also need to repot all the houseplants I have, and divide the peace lilies. And get baby spider plants started. AND get some perennial divisions potted.
I sell all these at a little "picnic table road side stand" in my front yard.
Before becoming a strictly indoor-only cat parent, I used to have a LOT of houseplants. I don't have that many now and most of them are hanging from the cellar rafters under a grow light. The cats won't stop chewing on them if I try to keep them upstairs.