Garden

My garden. What can I say. It has been the most troublesome thing this year. First off my baby mixed up the seedlings and took out the signs so it was a guess of what was what when I planted them. I had several flower plants in my seedlings but not many flowers in the garden. At the beginning I just let things go because I was not sure if it was a garden item, flower, or a weed. Then when I started realizing I started the insane process of weeding. Or should I say trying to weed. I do have a very large marigold plant that I love. I would totally do one that big again. Not sure how it happened but I like it.This is one view. My tomato plants are almost as tall as I am. They are EVERYWHERE. I later learned you are supposed to take out all old plants from the prior year so they don't sprout up new plants the next year. I have way too many and way too close. Several don't have cages on them as I just didn't get them on there in time.And the other view. There is a TON of weeds still, sad to say. I just can't get to it and I got very overwhelmed. My grass in my yard is considered a weed, Bermuda grass, and weeds do not process well in a home made compost. So I had a ridiculous amount of grass growing in the garden. Now that I have found out I don't put grass in my compost if it is the Bermuda kind. And please ignore the crazy weeds in the lawn too. I just can't seem to get to it all.I had a few vines that I did not know what was on them. I wandered around and found 4 good size cantaloupes. I am excited about that.And a couple, I think, watermelons. Excited about that too. Yippee!This is my massively huge broccoli plant. At least I was sure it was.And there it is. My teeny tiny broccoli head inside this huge plant. So funny.I have several of these throughout the garden. I have had people tell me it is a green bean plant. I have not found one green bean on any of them. Hmmmmm...And I have several regular pumpkin and dwarf pumpkin plants. And this is my only one growing. Sob. I don't think I will have enough for the Halloween season.I have big plans for my garden next year. At least I hope I can do it. :)

One of my Top Ten Loves

Gardening....ahhhhh. Yes I may complain later about how the weeds are overtaking it and I don't have time to take proper care of a garden but I LOVE to do it. It is very stress relieving to me. And hubby? I am fully prepared to shun all your teasing about how my garden looks. Pppbbbbbtttt! :)

I haven't gotten my garden ready yet but this plant decided to grow smack in the middle of it. So I found a group on facebook that identifies unknown plants. Turns out the leaves will turn green and then grow pink flowers. It's nickname is "Pigsqueak". I think it is perfect! I do plan to move him to a different place so he isn't in the garden though. I started my garden in the house with seeds this year. It really is cheaper! I am a slow learner.On the left is them really starting to grow and of course I got crazy and bought a second one. I am planting everything! So excited.I had won some flowers and this pot and my sweet Mother gave me some more flowers. Butterball and I planted them together. I also had dug up the tulips that grow in the middle of my grass and put them in here too. It doesn't look as good as I wanted it too but Butterball "helped" a ton so I had to keep it just the way it is.Happy Gardening everyone! I can't wait!

Earth Day

When it finally stopped snowing the kids and I went out and planted some plants to celebrate Earth Day. It was fun.

In our compost we found a caterpillar that Butterbean claimed as a pet and named Squirmy.Here is Appleseed "helping". I know, what a pretty face.Then Butterball found a worm that he wanted for his pet. He named it Crawly. In this picture he is showing me how Crawly is giving him a hug. So cute.My kids between my two peach trees. They were planted last year. I didn't think the little one would make it but she did! Yeah!Butterball was so upset because we would not let "Crawly" come live in the house. He was so worried that he would get out of his jar and crawl away. Especially as it is Crawly #2 in the jar. Crawly #1 got loose when he was showing him the outside and he fell in the grass. But Butterball thinks he crawled to the backyard and dug another hole and that is where we found him, of course. He was crying and telling my husband that he could get out of the jar because "him have little hands". He had seen them. He is so precious.