At a snails pace

While I was out taking some pictured of the garden so far i came upon this little guy just lazying around near the artichoke.

Almost as soon as I found the snail Rosie decided she wanted to see what it was and would not let it get very far until she went away.

There it goes on his/her merry way, I decided to let it continue living in the garden just as long as it doesn't get anywhere near the veggies.

These are the pictures of the garden so far the beds still need a little bit of work and mulching around them  the snow peas I hope will do very well they got their first flowers just the other day, but they're huge, and the artichoke gave off  another little baby choke.

Today for everyone  I Hope you have a happy mother's day. 

FINALLY!! let there be planting

So on Thursday I couldn't take it anymore, some of my plants were starting to turn  yellow from being in too small pots for way too long I had to get some soil.

After  a lot of wheel barrel trips mostly done by Mike (gosh i love that man) the planters were finally full YAY!! Now just need to cover it from little furry critters that love to see what's up with everything and stick their little furry faces & paws in it all.

So this month I've killed with the help of some snails and slugs,asparagus beans

Patio hybrid tomato a snail ate the top leaves

what the zuchinni is supposed to look like ...

...and what it looks like

a little more than gone lettuce

marigolds that were planted  in planter box with old(poor) soil

I grew these in ice cube trays with new soil a little after the ones in the planter

the difference is huge.

The rosemary in the chickens wings both sides died "unexpectedly" ahem.. cough... cough ... 

so all in all not a pretty bad month.  

Now that it seems most of everyones' climates are warm enough to plant Happy gardening !!! and let's hope there aren't anymore casualties in our midsts.

Wordless wednesday?

Thief! thief I say !

                                        We caught her in the act she can't deny it now.

I've gone and lost my hoe ??!!

So yesterday Mike and me decided we needed to clean like there was no tomorrow and after a sunburn for me and some "itching" with a "b" from him we kinda sorta have the yard presentable.although the big pile in the middle of the yard is still there we can't help that.

Both the green bins got filled up , now before I get flamed for not composting I must add that dog poop is never going in my veggie garden and as I've heard it isn't good to compost it anyways cause of germies. 

 Rosie and mommy playing

We tried to use that contraption on the yard to make it even for building the beds but it's about 50 years old and I think it's given up the ghost. I decided I was gonna make it even nomatter what so I took the hoe to it and did a little bit of it this morning I went looking for it to finish the job and couldn't find it, hopefully Mike know where it's at.

Updates:

We have three baby artichoke on the plant instread of just one.

 I have no idea how to cook an artichoke any suggestions on how to cook one?

 

The dwarf grapefruit is flowering but I found that there were no bees on it

 go figure but I hope it gives fruit this year.

A little info about us

I moved in with Mike my boyfriend into his grandfathers house one year and three months ago. Along with the house came years and years of stuff mostly stuff that was of no use to us and a very overgrown yard that had been neglected for a number of years lots of things needed to be replaced, redone, cleaned and/or  thrown out.We had a cat and two dogs and then a couple of days later a stray cat joined us just out of the blue. Fast forward a couple of months and we saw a poor little dog dodging traffic on a busy street I convinced Mike we could not let this happen poor little thing we went back to see if it was still there, it was and it did not run away when I tried to pick it up (so we took it home). Now here we were two cats three dogs that dog we picked up we put up flyers for her to see if anyone would claim her after all she was adorable, alas  no one claimed her (sad) the dog was pudgy suspiciously round we figured she was just a piggy thing as it turns out about 4 weeks after we had her she went into labor. Dawg gave us five adorable little puppies, so here was the count ... 5+3+2= 10 animals plus one bird something had to be done ... we have since found homes for the puppies we kept one our little Rosie pie and her mother Dawg the name just stuck. Around the same time that we were finding homes for our little ones and the bird a cat gave birth somewhere around here and had four kittens, they were adorable little balls of fluff but very wild, after a while they went away except for one who has adopted us (darnit) never could say no to a pretty face.This is our family Mike, me, Dawg, Baby, Lyka, Rosie pie, Keekers (Kiki), Garfield and B.K.       

 I love our home  it's so big and beautiful and lately it's been getting more and more manageable, soon the yard will be the pride and joy both Mike and me want it to be and (hopefully) i'll grow pounds and pounds of vegetables.We've inherited lots of furniture and problems and trash but I love it, this is our home.