Hope your weekend includes some of this:

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Holy crap you guys, it’s been a week since either one of us blogged!!

Every year we say that we aren’t going to book summer up, we are going to stay at home, enjoy our garden and swimming pool, then summer gets here and our plans go out the window.   Before May even got here we already had every weekend planned with something, leaving the weeks full of yard work and house work that didn’t get done on the weekend.

We are still trying to grow some plants, but people we are reaching triple digits pretty often!  Last week it hit 105 and the plants were feeling every degree.  Talk about droopy!  I can’t remember the last time we had some actual rain and everything outside of our yard is brown.  Brown plants, brown blowing dirt, just yuck.  Chances of rain are in the forecast for the weekend, so please keep your fingers crossed.  We need it badly!

Ok on with the proof that we still have some surviving plants.

I bought a fucia plant last year and it quickly died on us.  We just didn’t have the perfect spot for it at the old house, but I’m thinking that we do this year.  It gets a lot of shade, but just enough sun to keep it happy and I’m keeping it watered like I should (maybe that had something to do with the death last year).

The blooms on this plant just blow me away.  They look fake and even in person seem more like bunched fabric than a flower.

This pot has a Beefsteak tomato, Ace 55 tomato and a marigold to help keep pests away.  These two tomatoes win the award for growing the most and looking the healthiest.  We aren’t seeing any blooms yet, but it won’t be long.  I’m so ready to see that first baby tomato!

The plants in the raised beds don’t seem to be doing as well as the ones in the containers.  They are all not growing as fast, so hopefully they will catch up soon.

Are you all as busy as we are?  Hopefully I will have a chance to visit some blogs today and catch up.  We miss everyone when we are away from blog land.

Tags: Container Gardening, Crappy Weather, Flowers, Food, Gardening, Growing Tomatoes, HOT AS HELL, Living Green, Organic Gardening, Pictures, Recession Gardening, Seeds & Seedlings, Springy by Shala
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They like it when we post about them.  So they HI-5.  It is weird, but effective. 

WE HAVE PEPPERS pokin’ thier lil butts out already.  Actually, we have some that are almost half an inch long. haha SO BIG… haha  Regardless the size, we are happy just to see some action takin’ place in the garden.  Sprouts are cool and all… but seeing some of your first fruits/veggies start to emerge – totally different.

I think the scarier part is that you kind of think the hard work is done after planting, transplanting… all that stuff.  But really, now the real work starts.  Insects, birds… squirrels… diseases… harvesting… trimming… mulching.  It goes on and on.

But – it is also the funnest time to us, to go out and harvest and show off our prizes!  Are we alone?  Everyone loves the harvest most right?  Or is the initial sprouting phases more fun?

If you are a fan of harvesting or emergence… you will respect this next picture.  Our first Jalapeno pepper of the season…

Ladies & Gentlemen… Mucho Nacho…

Pretty cool huh?  That was Sunday, so it is actually a lil bigger now.  We can’t wait to harvest some peppers!  Crap man!  Hurry up!

Here is a quick bonus picture of our squash plant.  We have 3 plants growing in our 3 Sisters’ Garden (Corn, Bean & Squash).  We kind of violated this one to show you the lil blooms about to start shooting out.  So enjoy…

How does your garden grow?  Lots of changes takin’ place at the moment.  We are a little worried about the peppers we planted in the raised bed (the jalapenos are in a barrel), just because they are pale and kinda stunted it seems.  We are worried we overwatered them at the beginning.  Can you imagine killing 15 plants all at once.  Systematically… we hope we are wrong. 

Our tomatoes in pots are getting HUGE.  Just waiting for that first bloom.  COME ON FREAKIN’ TOMATOES!

Tags: Container Gardening, Food, Gardening, Growing Peppers, Organic Gardening, Pictures, Recession Gardening, Springy, raised beds by James
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