Frog

I was watering the garden and I heard a loud croaking noise and it was echoing. I looked around and figured there had to be a frog inside the PVC pipe that I use to put water in the earthboxes. So I ran inside and grabbed my camera and this is what I saw when I peaked inside.

Ultimate Worm Poop

Here is one of three bags of worm castings Vikki brought back from california on her recent trip.

Maggie and I used this when planting our updates to the soil garden. We add a handful in each dug hole for the plant to sit in after planting.

Making Pickles and Pickled Okra

Vikki and I make homemade pickles and pickled okra last night.

Tomato Update - May 20 !

OKRA !!!

It's only May 20 and we have okra ready to pick!

Beans and Melons

Growing nicely!

Green up your garden!

Want an inexpensive and easy way to green up your garden?  Pick up some epsom salt.  I bought this 1/2 gallon carton at walgreens for about $2.

Sprinkle a bit around your plants and water well.  You can also mix about 1/4 cup of salts in a gallon of water and apply during the watering cycle.

Don't believe me?  Check out this link.  http://www.epsomsaltcouncil.org/garden_usage_tips.htm

Ready for okra

Started okra from seed on March 15th.  2 months later, about to enjoy some fresh okra.  These are small plants too.

Heirloom Tomato

This is one of the prettiest tomato plants we have grown yet.  Pickle bucket SWC.

Tomato Update - Pickle Buckets!

5 gallon pickle bucket SWC doing their job nicely!

Red Bellpepper

Here are some seedlings given to us by our friend Mio.  These are red bells.  We got all 9 of them in the garden.  Growing nicely.

Patio Tomatoes

Maggie bought patio tomato plants, along with Mr. Stripey (heirloom) and cherry tomato plants at Lewis strawberry farms yesterday.  If you search for patio tomatoes in the blog section, you will pull up a lot of post from last years garden about the patio.  They produced the most fruit of any tomato.  The plants are determinate and do not get larger than about 24 inches high.  They are perfect for container pots and we have already planted ours in a pickle bucket self watering container.  Much more as this plant gets bigger.  I highly recommend this variety for gardeners that do not have a large are for gardening.

Okra onboard

Our small okra plants have started producing small fruit, already!  Looking forward to a bountiful harvest.

Tomatoes in Pickle Buckets

Here is the latest!  An heirloom purchased as a small seedling and a big boy. Both in pickle buckets or self watering containers. 

Garden up!

Spent a few days clearing the garden area and digging up the soil to loosen things up.  Here's what we've got in the ground now.  8x16 foot area.

• tomatoes
• cosmos
• yellow and red potatoes
• cilantro
• basil
• cukes
• melons
• beans
• yellow and red peppers
• jalepenos
• corn