How does my garden grow?

Very well indeed. Nothing else has died since I replanted, and everything is taking off and growing so fast. Hopefully we will have more "fruit" soon.

This one of our watermelon plants. We have four (three doing really well) and looking great. The vines can get kind of crazy so hopefully they won't interfere with the squash and zucchini plant close by (which also grows crazily).

This is my first plant to actually bear fruit. It is one of my four hot banana peppers. I think they need to be about 4-5" long and 1-2" wide before picking so I have a bit to before harvesting, but as soon as I do I'll post my recipe for it.

This is a picture of one zucchini and one tomato plant. They are growing so fast. I need to tie up my tomato plants soon but I am trying to wait as long as possible so I don't have to retie later.

These last two pitures are my herbs. the cilantro didn't make it--not sure why but oh well. I do have some great spearmint (first pic) and chives and curly parsley. I made a fabulous melted herb butter tonight using my chives and parsley. Anyways, I love my garden; it is flourishing and looks better than I ever thought it could!!

So You're Dead, Now What?

My garden has been doing really well, but we were having a problem with wild onions and weeds.  We had wanted to grow without pesticides.  I thought since we did not have any "fruit" yet I would go ahead and srapy for weeds.  However, I sprayed some of the plants (the bottle did say it was safe to use on flowers and vegetable plants), and by the time Nick came home--about two hours after I sprayed--all but two of my plants were dead!!!  I was so upset.  But...I did start over.  I had to get four more tomato plants, four more hot banana pepper plants, and plant more zucchini.  I guess I learned my lesson.  

Also, we planted sugar baby melons.  Yum!!

I haven't really fixed many great dinners lately.  I did try to make a "fall-apart" pork last night, but it didn't cook all the way through.  I ended up slicing some off and finishing it in the microwave.  The flavor was great, and I think I might try it again and just cook it slow all day.

If you would like to try it, check out the RV Cooking Show.  

New Garden

We decided to plant a garden this year.  We only had a small place but there were lots of weeds and monkey grass to remove.  It took two work days to clear out everything but finally got it done, and it looks great!

This is the garden before.

These are our zucchini plants.  I planted them last Wednesday, and they are sprouting already! There are four plants (only two growing yet).  Can't wait to harvest some of these and grill some kabobs!

This is the garden after the first half was cleared and planted.  I planted two Roma tomato plants (on the left), two Homestead tomato plants (on the back right), and two hot banana peppers (in the front).  I think it looks great.  We just need some rain!!

This is my cilantro planter.  I had six sprouts but three died because I left them in the sun too long one day--it was extremely hot that day.  I have three still living and planted five more.  Hopefully, there will be some new sprouts next week.

These are my other herbs.  All my chives (in the back) are doing great.  The parsley (in the middle) is good--I had one casuality with the hot weather.  The thyme (front to picture) is so-so.  Lost two plants and it is not growing that much.  I am patiently hoping it makes it.
 

Also, I have spearmint which is sprouting like crazy.  I will also be planting yellow squash next week, but we need more soil.  I really like gardening.  It is tons of hard preparation work but the outcome is a great reward!!

Garden Pictures

These are my "babies".  Growing strong and healthy.  I have mostly parsley growing, but there are 4 chive sprouts and 1 thyme sprout.  I had a slight problem with mold being on some of the containers so I am not sure if that has affect some of the growth, but I got rid of all of it.  We'll see what happens with the rest.

Herb Garden Update

This is my herb garden.  It is only in the beginning stage here.

Here is the garden on day 5 (I think), and the white/green dots are my herb starting to germinate!!  Only the parsley is grwoing yet, but over the next couple days the chives and thyme should start to appear.  

Success, yeah!!!

Green Thumb

I have an herb garden!!  So I LOVE to cook and use tons of fresh herbs to add flavor (add reduce sodium intake).    Normally I just buy packages of herbs, but why?  Herbs are some of the easiest things to grow.  This year I found a completely boidegradable/compostable seed starting kit--Burpee eco-friendly seed starting 25-cell greenhouse kit.  It was so easy.  I planted thyme, parsley, and chives.  Next week I'll be planting cilantro--my all-time favorite herb!!  

Also we, as a family, might go over Nick's granparents and plant a garden.  They have had one every every since...well as long as anyone can remember, but they have some health problems and can't do it this year.  We are going simple just tomatoes, corn, squash, maybe field peas, and cucumbers.  In the late summer/early fall we might do some potatoes, carrots and onions.  It is going to hard work, but a new and rewarding experience.  It just makes me so excited!

I'll update as I go along, throw in a few tips along the way if you want totry to start a garden.  I am sure there will some new recipes as well.