Garden Update

I thought I would share some photos of the garden. It was a tough summer. At our home we did not get a drop of rain the whole month of July even though we had storms all around us. We did a lot of watering by hand but there is nothing like real rain from God to refresh and restore the plants in a garden.

I had a few Gardenias bloom recently. They smell delightful!

This photo shows all our sweet potatoes in the right hand corners. In the fore ground are some melons and corn. This was a second try at corn which is probably not going to make. Our first crop a raccoon got into it.

These are all the melons and squash. There is cantaloupe, watermelon, spaghetti squash, and pumpkin. The pumpkin are not going to make it this year either. Some critter keeps getting the little pumpkins and now some kind of leave mold is on the leaves. I tried planting butternut squash too but squash borers got to them and they died. We are going to make more beds this winter which will have much better soil for the melons and squash next year. It was a struggle trying to keep these mounds watered. We just didn't have enough time to get them built before it was time to plant.

I have planted cabbage in the front bed. Kale and onions in the second bed. I just pulled up that zucchini plant to the left today. Next bed has some bell peppers and way in back are pinto beans that I am going to let dry on the plant so I will have dried beans for wintertime.

Tomatoes to the left which have done horribly this year. More sweet potatoes, chili peppers and asparagus. In the middle are black beans which I will dry on the plant like the pinto beans. Under that white cloth are carrots which are doing okay.

Here is one of the cantaloupe we got this summer. It was the sweetest melon I ever ate.

From some of the tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, and basil I harvested I decided to make some homemade pizza.

I roasted some garlic that I also grew.

Don't these pizzas look good? They were very, very good!

This is a papaya-dew melon. It was so sweet and juicy too. I will definitely grow these again

 I am still getting a baggy full of green beans every two days.

 Here are some of the tomatoes. I tried to grow some big slicing tomatoes and paste tomatoes but they did not do well at all.

 I leave you with this photo of some blooms from the sweet potatoes vines. I thought we had morning glories growing among the potato vines.

Gardening can be tough be it is good to get out in the garden and work. I really enjoy watching things grow and even better I enjoy the fresh fruits.

With Passion,
Carrie P.