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November Garden

November 28, 2009 By: Katie2 Comments

I haven’t posted a garden update in a while, mainly because the summer heat ravaged the garden and pictures of shriveled plants are not so exciting. Luckily, I slacked off on pulling out the dead looking plants and now we’ve got garden-fresh tomatoes! Who knew we could grow tomatoes in November? There are larger ones which […]

More pics

June 4, 2009 By: Katiecomment

To make up for my odd garden pictures, here are some prettier ones from our yard.  

Garden ponderings

June 3, 2009 By: Katie1 Comment

I love our garden. But occasionally there are some oddities that I just can’t explain: Why is there corn growing among my romaine lettuce (far away from our corn)? Why are my cucumbers growing in circles? Did Jack lose the seeds to his beanstalk? Holy cow! (My hand cannot wrap all the around this sucker’s […]

Garden pics

March 10, 2009 By: Katiecomment

I love my garden (even if it is overrun with mushrooms). It’s so relaxing to go out and take care of the plants, watch them grow. Here are some random pictures, just because they make me smile:

Garden Construction

January 24, 2009 By: Katie2 Comments

One of the benefits of living in the heat of Phoenix is the extended gardening season (and by extended, I mean year-round). We’ve been spending all our free time the last few weeks putting in a garden (finally) and it is almost done. Of course, no project is complete without one of our little helpers […]

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