I know with the lack of gardening related posts, one might think we aren’t even doing much anymore with the garden.

You are about half right.

We have really let the garden go of late, with everything going on… we just haven’t had time to get out there and enjoy it.  The cool thing is that we are still harvesting some veggies here and there and will continue to as long as we live here (less than a month). 

We have tons of tomatoes that are about to be ready to pull, we have just been pulling them as we need them.  Nothing like a fresh tomato… mmmMmm.  Our peppers are probably the most abundant crop, all kinds of good stuff.  Jalapenos are hot as ever and they finally get big.  Then add in the constant flow of banana peppers and a few bell peppers here and there… it all makes us happy campers.

Shala planted some green beans late in the season and they grow so fast.  We are already pulling beans off and expect to for a while… wait… at least until the end of the month (I keep forgetting we are moving).  This weekend Shala went out and picked a little bit of everything, and as you can see below… we are still getting enough to keep us fed (for a day).

Pictured are some green beans, some hot portugal peppers and banana peppers (in that order).  Anyone else still out there harvesting?  I know you Texans are… its still Summer here.

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Yesterday morning it was nice, so I strolled through the garden and harvested some of the many peppers.  The jalapeno plants were begging to get picked - so they got the brunt of it.

We are already planning how we would do things different next year, the only bad thing is we don’t know where we will be next year… if we will have a garden… all that mess.  Remember our house is pending tear-down and parking lot building.  Don’t get us started.

Seriously.  Don’t. 

So we are making kind-of half ass plans at the moment until we can figure out where we will be living, what kind of plot we will have… all that jazz.  But we can still dream right?

Back to the peppers.

Picked a few handfulls of jalapenos, a hot portugal & a few santiagos.  Not to mention that beautiful bell pepper.  Check ‘em out…

So with our new peppers… we decided to use them.  WHY NOT!  Actually we just used the bell pepper and I used a few of the hot ones (santiago hybrids).  Nothing like fresh peppers for your favorite dishes… right?  Kung Pow Chicken was on the menu for last night with fried rice.  Top notch.  Here is a pic of how it turned out…

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Lots of rain this week.  More rain than we have had all year I’m sure.  That is about how it comes though usually.  So we don’t complain when it does. 

Neither does the garden.

In fact the garden is living it up.  Next week, when the sun comes out… I’m sure we are going to see some things go semi-crazy.  We water pretty regularly, however there is nothing like rain.  Just nothing like it.

The plants are already going nuts in their newly acquired moisture.  We snapped some pics just to show everyone how its going and that we are in fact still gardening (even though it seems as if we don’t post as much anymore).

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One would think we were in Seattle.  I mean really.  It doesn’t rain like this here in West Texas.

It just doesn’t.

It actually has rained since late Friday I believe (we were out of town), and it hasn’t stopped really since.  Every day we get some sort of rain and the last two days have seemed like late fall or early winter.  I like it.

I think the plants are liking it too.  We haven’t asked them though.  Maybe today.

The dogs aren’t that into it.  Having to stay outside, even with the 20 ft. porch to lay under… it pisses them off.  Yesterday it hadn’t really rained a lot and so they were not as pissed.  I snuck up on them and they were sleeping out by the dog house.  Well Mikey was actually in the dog house (on his doggie porch) and Izzy was laying outside right in front - both sleeping. 

But of course when I got the camera to snap a picture that would make a mother cry…  I got this.

I’m not suprised… really.  It happens all the time.  How’s the weather in “your neck of the woods”?

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Finally our two big tomatoes have decided to ripen.  These guys turned red while we were away for the weekend and I can’t wait to have a taste! 

The bottoms are beautiful as you can see.

The tops aren’t quiet as nice.  These are the two that I showed previously while still on the vine.  They did some major cracking during our week of pretty wet weather.  They were just getting so juicy the skin couldn’t keep up.  We will cut the tops off and eat the bottoms.

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