August 31st, 2010

  This post will not involve any pictures as i am quite lay at this moment and will not get up for anything.Since Ive last posted alot has happened in roies little garden  she seems to think tomatoes are play things and I keep finding them aroung the yard half nibbled and slobbered on, plus she takes great pride in stealing them straight out from under me when I am picking them sneaky little think she is.
   Sunflowers have come out and are hung to dry in the sun they'll either become bird seed for winter or salted sunflower seeds for Mike and me the dogs don't seem to mind them either as is. Most of the marigolds have been pulled out as the plants were way too big and too few flowers were being produced, all of the crookneck and zuchinni squash plants have been uprooted and sent to the green bin.
   I finally got my butt in gear and got some weed tarp down for pathways around the beds and have started to mulch, we still need to put a border to contain the mulch and to put the fence back up so the dogs can't go in and kill everything. The soil has been amended with peatmoss and steer manure and I've started to plant my fall garden which will include snow peas, cabbage, cauliflower and multiple types of lettuce including baby romaine and buttercrunch and more than likely some pac choi.(Here's to hoping it will all grow grow Grow!)
    I think next year I will have to find a better way of preserving tomatoes, I have read all of the ways Granny and Ribbit and some of the others preserve their harvest I'm into the freezing thing but I can't seem to keep up (what can I really do with 6+lbs of cherry tomatoes every couple of days?) I guess for now I'll just have to dice them and freeze them for future use like I did with the squash.
 As the Harvest stands now :

1. Tomatos: 29lbs 15 oz
2. Yard Long beans: 2lbs 5 oz
3. Bell peppers: 1lb 7oz
4. Crookneck squash: 19lbs 8 oz
5. Zuchinni: 18lbs 6 oz
6. Anaheim peppers: 1lb 8 oz
7. Lettuce mix: 1lb 5.5 oz
8. Snowpeas: 1 oz
9. Artichoke: 7 oz
10. Pac choi: 6 oz
11. Cucumbers: 6.5 oz

 Total for the Yr: 75lbs 9 oz 



It's incredible what can be accomplished in less than a year this is my first time ever, keeping track, square foot gardening, having Rosie pie. And almost 2 whole years being with Mike, life is funny that way I guess you never really know how it will truly end up or start... 

To all those keeping tabs on me or even just passing by I hope your life is as wonderful, happy and even half as good as mine I'm sure you'll be very happy.Good night.

 

What's been missed since I last posted

        Rosie squash?          Crookneck squash                             Mutant squash

                  

 

                                                                                         Baby tomatos   
First (teddybear) sunflower                                                                                         


  

                                                                                        Harvest zuchs

 Bolted lettuce    Giant sunflower 

Dying giant sunflower        

Giant pumpkin spread out                                                                             

                                               

Giant pumpkin baby

Anaheim chilis

                                               

5 ft tall yard long beans

dwarf oranges

                              

Meyer lemon grew at least 1 ft

Dwarf Grapefruit has fruit this year

                           

Before

After

Half the pile is gone

and last but not least Naked dog ... it was hot what do you expect ...

First off I'd like to say ...

...Naked dog

isn't she just the cutest it's her summer hairdo

A Veggiesaurus

Yesterday afternoon I was puttering around in the garden when Miss Rosie pie decided she'd like to join me in thinning out the radishes

she loved it
she even smiled a little bit
and after she was done she went to rest under the rosebush she was all tired out .( ahh a dogs life... it's sooo tiring )
(P.S she's been caught helping me thin out the radishes all on her own without my help )

Video guided tour

little tour of the garden Mike built for me

Should i even say who got to eat the snowpeas ?

As you can tell she eats everything this is a picture of her eating an avocado and it figures she eats snowpeas oh my gosh does she ever if i gave they amm to her it wouldn't be enough. I ofcourse forgot to take pictures of them before they were eaten (silly me)there wasn't even time, I did try to give some to Rosie pies momma and she promptly spit it out Rosie was very happy however and ate it !

 There was also a 1.5 oz harvest of lettuce wich was much loved in a salad and burger topping  which there is no picture of either as I was in too much of a hurry to snap it.

Happy Eating! 

 I hope everyone else doesn't have a cold like me...(Ugh!)

Mike loves me alot !

We went to a certain building supply store known as Home Depot tonight and as we were looking through the plants I saw the most gorgeous shade of bougainvillea, he didn't get it for me but he did get me another smaller bougainvillea plant in a different shade and a Eureka lemon tree. I've hit the jackpot with this man I'm never letting him away from my sight. When we were cleaning up the backyard and trying to get it into a more manageable size we unfortunately had to pull up an existing lemon tree that was way too close to the fence and he promised me he'd get me one to replace it, he keeps his promises.

                                                     Here's a picture of my new little trophies

how the plants grow

My snow peas are huge with some of their leaves being bigger than my hand

Mike put the stork in the garden figured it would scare away the little birds and it did (he's a genius)

The giant pumpkin seedling emerged quick in less than a weekMarigolds seem ready to bloom    

Zucchinni seems to be recovering from it's stunted growth it even put out some blooms but it seems too little to bear fruit yetmy tomatoes have put out a couple of blooms and they're starting to get lots more they have just about doubled in size since I planted them

planted some radishes and they're sooo cute most of the seeds came up even thought I thought they might not because the seeds weren't the freshest. I've also planted some bok choi and yardlong greenbeans which have sprouted nicely all of the beans sprouted but about 3 of the bok choi didn't although I could have sworn that in the beginning only one hadn't I distinctly remember there being 8 plants and not six.

and last but not least the corn is doing great (YAY!)it's not sickly looking anymore and has grown alot since i last took pictures of it although according to Mike they were going to die just like that cactus... it only happened ONCE!!! ,and he can't freaking forget that geez but ha ha! I showed him :-P~

This is the reason some of my plants have not survived, see the incriminating evidence the sulky look, the downward gaze and her big nose covered in soil. This picture was taken after she decided that my little cucumber plant must die. How can you stay mad at her though look at that face Baby is afterall a baby I guess that's all she'll ever be, I must learn to be more vigilant in future lest this happens again.

Puppies like avocados. Puppies like avocados?

Well apparently they do ...

I was making myself a sandwich this morning  when I noticed her eyeing my avocado, I gave her a little taste

but she wanted more

apparently it was yummy

and then there was none.

She even wanted to take the rind but i was scared she'd choke on it so I didn't give it to her