Hello and Welcome I'm Gaby

These are my first attempts at square foot gardening

Saturday, May 22, 2010

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

Friday, May 21, 2010

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.