Another update

Well I promised some updates....hope these pics from this week do justice!

Could the sky look more amazing?!

My trusty sidekick is modeling so you can see the corn!



This is looking to the West....Those are potatoes next to the corn

Left: Onions

Center: Potatoes

Right: Cucumbers

 

 

Watermelon and squash/pumpkin area

 

one of the watermelons is starting nicely!
 



Another variety
 



Green Beans
 

Tomatillos

Zucchini

I have no clue what this is...lol!  Thanks to my greenhouse tipping over 2x's!



cantaloupe/muskmelon

butternut squash waiting to be fertilized by pollination!

Again, I'm not sure...sad, I know!
 

See the first tomato to be ready!

Another butternut squash



Sweet banana Peppers

 

The garden

The garden has been growing like wildfire!  The first batch of corn is over my head now and the later stuff is anywhere from knee high on up!  Everything is looking pretty good.  We have decided to be completely organic, which is great, but also has some drawbacks when the pests arrive!  I've lost one tomato plant and several cucumber plants to some type of wilt.  It's unfortunate, but thankfully I planted a lot!! However I believe I am going to be short on tomatoes this year. ;(

July 2nd, 2014

 

 

Different Angle

Tomatoes





The back garden with sweet corn, strawberries, Rhubarb, sunflowers and squash

 

 

The corn on July 2nd! 

(wait until you see it now!)

 

My sexy gardener!

He's weeding the onions

 

Watermelon plants

 

Female flower

male flower
Did you know that there was a difference?  Yes, well then you probably paid attention in science....thank your teacher for keeping it interesting.....if you didn't know this, you're welcome! I'm glad that you learned something new!
Well, this is probably a good spot to stop.  I will have to be better about updating this with more recent pictures.  The garden is growing like wildfire and it is hard to keep up with everything!  I'm not certain how summer can fly by so quickly, but it is!

Here are a few visitors we recently had in the backyard!

I'll leave you with that :)

A bit of this and that....

Well there are a few other things that needed updating.  This spring I finally took everything off the loom from my winter work.  Here is a view of a few of them.  The patterns all turned out cool and everyone really liked them.  So I was pleased.

A few of the patterns


 

This one was made into the dog's placemat...she's fancy!



So I thought that I had pictures of a few of the towels I completed after cutting everything apart but of course I cannot find them.  I am currently starting a new set on the loom and I hope to sell a few more!  Stay tuned for that!


Another adventure was the Retro Wedding shower I hosted here.  And boy did everyone have fun.  Below are just a few shots of what it looked like:

Mingling

These are old family photos and cards

 The Future bride practicing with her new niece!

 Everyone was to wear an apron to the shower and the retro theme was seen in decorations, pictures, antiques, and games.  The bride received a lot of kitchen items, recipes and groceries to get started.

 

These were the recipe cards that everyone filled out with their gift.

 

So then school let out and my summer fun finally began even though it was the end of June this year....thank you snow days!  I got started on the gardening and some canning already!

 

Strawberries from the new strawberry plants we got from a nice couple we randomly met while buying farm equipment.  They gave us 60 plants!

However, I still had to go out and buy these to make some jam!

 

 

And yes this does taste as good as it looks!  I made 41 jars...yeesh!

 

Well, I guess that is all for now...stay tuned for the garden updates!!

Rewind...Catch up...

Well, it is time to catch you up on everything that has happened since I last wrote. 

Life here has been crazy!  March continued with that white stuff everywhere. 

March 7th

However we made it all winter without one single heating bill!  That wood stove and my fabulous husband kept us toasty warm all winter long!  It's amazing!  Due to the weather, we had a very late start on tilling up the garden, but it provided my husband time to talk me into more tractor implements.  I tell ya....what a guy can dream up when it comes to toys and playing in the dirt. LOL

Somewhere between snow and garden season I found these guys in the yard after days of searching the back 40! 

Speaking of playing in the dirt, we also started digging up the yard.  He took down a large Walnut tree on the West side of the house and then dug a huge hole because he decided to make our crawlspace basement into a full sized basement. This project made me extremely nervous, but my husband is really good at what he does and his plan is a good one.  Recently he and a buddy poured concrete piers to support the foundation of the house so we don't one day wake up with half the house in the hole!

The beginning (walnut tree in background)

And the tree is down.  I unfortunately do not have any photos of that happening because I was babysitting a 5 month old and there was no putting him down.  However his dad was a big help to my hubby so the babysitting was no big deal.

                                         Digging the ditch for the drain tile....Wow-zers!

Pouring the piers

So, back to the garden......the garden was finally tilled up and we got to work.
 My husband says to me...."I hope this is big enough for you because I am not making it any bigger!" 

And here is the garden in process

Here is the start....a few plants in

(I of course said it was fine but in my mind, I knew that it was going to be an issue.  You see a man doesn't get a tractor and a bunch of implements to use and not have more space to play in....I promise you.  It's just not going to happen.)
 I then said to my husband, "Where are my strawberries, rhubarb and asparagus going to go?  They need a permanent spot.  Can we make a raised bed for each?"
HIM: "Ah no, we're not going to do raised beds, I guess I will just have to make another spot for that." (All said as if he were really disappointed....even though I know that in his mind he was excited....another reason to play on his tractor...in the dirt).  So, he got to work and tilled up a new section for me.  He looked happy....really happy.  He loves riding his tractor.  I find it pretty cute.... of course. So we were done...or were we?!?  We got started planting the garden and he had so much fun using his corn planter, he wanted to plant more rows.  Guess who ran out of room?  Guess who said the garden needed to be bigger?  Guess who planned to double/triple the size for next year?  I will give you a clue....it was NOT me, not this time :) LOL.  As you can again guess,  because he did run out of room and wanted to plant more corn....aka play with his new toys more, he expanded the garden again.  And then he planted more sweet corn.  It goes by the name of 'bodacious sweet corn' so naturally when we go out to check on things he looks at me and says 'bodacious' of course trying to be funny. And he is.  How do you not chuckle?

So the garden is in, everything is finally planted.  Even after my last minute purchases on discount at the greenhouse.  I got it all in and the garden is looking amazing!!  

So that is a small overview of things going on here.  You really have to see it all.  There is a lot more that I needed to update, so stay posted ......