Bugs and More Bugs

So, our organic garden went not so organic last week. I sprayed it with bug spray. We had an infestation of aphids and Rollie Pollies and I couldn't get rid of them with just the soap and water mixture.

Really all that's growing right now is the peppers. And man do we have peppers. Robert goes out to the garden and pulls about 20 off the plants per week. The cucumbers are starting to slow down, but we still have about 1-2 a week of those too.

The beans stalks are still growing, but we have yet to see a bean...it's probably too hot.

Oh, Yeah, we still could feed the world with all the basil we have :) If you need basil, you know where to find it!!!

Our strawberry plant is loving the hot weather and growing like crazy, but not producing anything.

We'll be out there this weekend, cleaning up and checking on everything.

Sad Day

I went out to the garden today because the squash plant was looking a little sad. Come to find out the squash plant is sad, because something has been eating it. :( I think it's aphids. So, Robert pulled out the sulfur and sprinkled some on i, don't think it will work for aphids, but it's a good start. Now to research how to get rid of the millions of bugs... off to google.

We still have tons of basil, tons of peppers growing and cucumbers.

Front garden and Jalapenos

So, I noticed that I don't think that I ever posted on our progress in the front yard. WOW.

We finally pulled up the Monkey Grass that was in the front yard. They were bigger then your head, REALLY, Huge! My brother came over one weekend and Robert and he pulled them up.

Then, we planted Hibicus and Caladium bulbs. It took the Caladiums a month or two to grow, but finally are looking good. As I was pulling out the drive way this morning I took a moment to enjoy the front yard and took a couple of pictures.

This is a weeks worth of Jalapenos... I'm taking them to work to hand out because 1.) they don't go with a low fat bland diet, 2.) Robert's out of town and won't enjoy them for a couple of weeks and we will have more by the time he gets home. I also need to chop done the basil while he's gone.

Cucumbers, Squash and Basil oh my

What I pulled from our garden this morning:

3 Large Cucumbers

1 Large Squash

I also chopped back the basil. Robert usually does this, but since he's out this week I didn't want the flowers to keep growing and making the basil bitter, so I chopped them all off. (Which is almost a weekly thing)

Garden week??

Everything seems to be growing well. We now have jalapenos growing (20 at last count), 4 cucumbers, multiple squash, 3 Roma-Grape Tomatoes, beans are blooming, lettuce is growing, and all that jazz! The only thing is that I've had to move some plants around b/c our squash was taking over the garden. This was crowding the bell peppers (which aren't growing yet) so I moved them up. Let's hope they survive.

Let me take you on a tour of our back yard gardens...

One of the side gardens in the back yard with Elephant Ears, Caladiums, Monkey Grass and a few flowers.

Cucumbers are growing like crazy. We currently have only 3 or 4 cucumbers growing, but we have lots of flowers. Also, in this garden are carrots, pepper plants and marigolds.

Our pretty Hibicus Tree (I killed the last one, b/c I planted it in the ground and then was too lazy to dig it up, so it didn't survive the winter. This one will stay in the pot and go in the garage during winter)

This little garden is mainly Nana's creation. It has flowers, a mini rose bush and those orange flowers that grow tall and I can't remember what they are called.

The Veggie Garden.

Squash, squash and more squash.

Bean Stalks, we have bean flowers, but no beans yet.

Middle of the garden, peppers, lettuce, marigolds, LOTS OF BASIL. (Robert cuts the basil about once to twice a week and it still is growing flowers and getting larger!)

Jalapenos!

Tomatoes.

We finished out this side of the back yard garden a couple of weeks ago. It still needs more stones to finish it out completely, but looks great! This is all flowers. (Please ignore the dirt in the grass, we are growing more grass!)

Day 37 or something like that!

After my failed attempts at taking pictures of the garden, Robert got out (after the rain) and took pictures for me!!



Here's our garden at day 37!

Side garden with pepers, little bitty carrot sprouts and cucumbers.

Basil!

Squash, that is squashing the parsley.

We have 4 tomatoes, lettuce is still growing, beans are looking better (they were getting a little brown), squash is blooming, we have basil tons of basil, and parsley is still looking good. Oh, and our cucumbers are starting to bloom, and so are the peppers, carrots are still there, and so is the garlic (although we can't tell how either of them is doing)!

And did I mention we have TONS of basil, so if you need any, just come over!

Tomatoes

We have 4 Tomatoes!! I came in last night super excited and told Robert, "We can make a Salad!!"

Right now are tomatoes are still very green and very small and our lettuce is still growing, but still very small. So I guess we could have a mini-salad.


Last year I planted tomatoes, and had huge tomato plants, but never a tomato.

I tried to get pictures of our garden and future salad, but I am sometimes pretty camera stupid and that was the case this morning. I took about 10 pictures and then Robert said something about the wrong lens and then made fun of the fact that I didn't even have a card in the camera. (You would think a camera that smart would tell you there isn't a card)

Robert said he will take pictures tonight of all our blooms and tomatoes :) I'll post them!