Admission

I'm Little Miss Planner and I'm addicted to all things dirt. I can officially say that I've truly lost it. On Saturday morning, the hubby took me to the garden center so i could get the rake I've been jabbering on about all week long. Unfortunately we left with a trunk full of plants, dirt and other random things that I apparently "needed." Once I got home I changed and proceeded to spent 4 hours weeding and planting and watering and just plain old getting dirty. After I was all dusty and dirty, I walked into the house and gave the hubby a great big hug and told him what I wanted for my birthday (let me remind you it is over 6 months away). This:


Source

You see, I put all my fun tools on the side of the house but as much as I put stuff in some order, it just doesn't sit well with me. I feel uneasy when things aren't in their "place" and my tools need a home. (read: little miss planner has OCD tendencies) I just need a little outdoor closet/shed to keep things tidy.

So there you have it. Today's admission of insanity. Oh, and yes I tried to skim over the fact I planted more... I found this area that looked very unkept on the hill. So I cleaned it out and planted more... 2 types of peppers, more tomatoes and squash. Funny (or sad) part is I DON'T eat peppers or regular tomatoes. My justification... well, i know a lot of people do so we'll give them away! :)

Farm Update #5

Beware: image heavy post.

Update...

So you know that hard work I griped about last Monday? This is what the garden looked liked before:


The garden's grown alot:


and now we added onto the wall:


Last night we planted more artichokes on the top as well as spaghetti squash. On the bottom, we have spinach, more lettuce, more carrots, cauliflower, and an area for the pumpkins. The pumpkin vine will be moved outward and up the hill once that grows, much like the cucumber vine.

So updates on everything:


Peas


lettuce


carrots


herbs


cucumbers


cherry tomato bush


corn

Garden Envy...

I'm SOOOO adding onto our garden next year. If you love gardening, you HAVE to take a look at The Dervaes Family. I first saw this post over at Oh Happy Day! Go here to watch the 1 minute clip on Oprah.




You can Follow their journal here! I just added them to my Google reader!

Oh, here's another clip!

Farm Update #4

Sunday was SUCH A BEAUTIFUL day the hubby and I had no choice to but to spend it out in the yard gardening and taking in the warm rays. I think I might have even accumulated a new freckle! :)

We moved around some plants, planted a bunch more and well, it looks fantastic. As for the garden, we bought oregano, and a melon star bush (no idea what it is but I liked the name so we bought it). But how is everything else doing? The corn is 6 inches tall, the tomato bush is well, bushy! Everything looks soo great!

Here below are some of my pretties:

Lettuce

Onions

Peas


The peas have grown so much, they are so close to the rope that i think another week or two they will start growing up on it! How's everyone else's garden doing?