Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Gardening

Last night we had our first salad from the garden.  Some nice romain, a bell pepper, green onion, broccoli and some baby tomatoes. The kids loved it except for the tomatoes, every one of them spit it out. I don't know why because they were sweet as can be.

This year the garden is doing very well, the boxes we moved across the street to the new house and the dirt was mixed up quite a bit so I think that helped with the one box that was having some issues last year and killed everything that was in that box.

So this year we have in the garden:

Swiss chard, Corn, peas, potates, beets, green onion, carrots, pole beans, romain and buttercruch lettus, broccoli, cauliflaurer, kale, cabbage (green and red), zucchini and kohlrabie which i have never grown before.

In the green house are the tomatoes, bell peppers, jalepeno peppers and cucumber. I've never grown the jalepenos before but the plant has about a dozen peppers on it and I'm not sure what I will do with it. I pick a couple last night and SmartGuy and I both just touched our tongues to a cut up piece and our mouths burned. Maybe I'll make some salsa. The pepper plants are flourishing this year compared to last, we've already had two peppers of it and a couple of plants have 6 or 7 peppers on each. They are small plants but I think the boxes maybe be small. I feel like I'll need more dirt next year and another box.

I'm not sure I will get much this years from the zucchini and cucumber plants, they were late starts and zucchini doesn't seem to do as well in the garden as they do in the green house. I'llhave to do some rearranging next year. I more or less just plopped the plants where they fit as I was busy with unpacking the house.

I haven't taken any pictures yet but I will this week and post them here.