First Harvest

Zucchini Invasion 2012 has begun!

Grow Little Garden

plants

It's working!

I am growing things!*

(Or rather, God is growing things and I am successfully not killing them.)

I suppose this success can be attributed largely my mother, known in these parts as somewhat of a gardening expert, who is determined to keep my little plants thriving. She comes over to check on them, and always brings grandmotherly presents, like fertilizer. And mesh fencing to keep the big, bad deer away.

May 30, 2012

June 29, 2012

June 29, 2012

June 29, 2012

*Note: Pardon my excitement. I have tried "gardening" on and off for the entire duration of my almost-eight-year marriage, and have never had a single success. Unless, of course, you count the single, solitary baby pumpkin we reaped last year from the weeds I once called a garden.


flowers

May 25, 2012

June 29, 2012

My lilies have opened!

Garden Nome: Take Two

Begin building raised bed

Keep on stackin'

Enlist help of three very helpful children

Brody will hold that in place for you Daddy

Fill with organic compost

PLANT!

Garden Nome

(No, I did not spell that wrong. Nome is a nickname my brother, Andy, calls me)

Summer is pushing it's way into Wisconsin, and that means it's garden time. Those of you who know me, know my track record with plants. I don't have a very high success rate of keeping them alive.

Ok, more specifically, I don't have any success at keeping them alive.

But this year is different. Because I decided it is.

I will be successful. Period.

So...

I dove right in. I came up with an equation for success.

1.) Move the location of the vegetable garden. (Jared was THRILLED about this one.)

This spot is much closer to the kitchen door. Which means I have to only walk 5 feet, instead of 25 feet to pluck some basil for the gourmet italian cuisine I will prepare every night...

2.) Make it a raised bed.

Commense digging, since this location is on a hill and a raised bed wouldn't be much of a success if it's tilting downhill...



3.) Finish digging it out before Memorial Day.

 This is as far as we've gotten. Next week, we proceed on the path to success.

And now for the flowers. Be impressed.

daisy

dahlia

martha washington geranium

senetti

martha washington geranium

dianthus

vinca

petunia

dahlia

yellow daisy

dianthus

dahlia

purple iris

Me and my garden extraordinaire. My mom. She is amazing.

My Garden is on a Diet.

This "summer" is doing wonders for my garden...

...and my waistline.