Exciting Garden Pictures!!!!!!!

Yes, folks, I have some boring garden pictures to show off. I just changed the title so my so-called-friends and family would actually take the time to look at my boring pictures.



Our garden is doing better than we expected. We have very hard clay for soil, and it needs humus added to it to keep it from packing up tight around our little plants' roots. We were able to get cow manure, leaves, and the litter from our chicken pen into three of the gardens, but one of the gardens-- you know, the one way down at the bottom of the hill that no one pays attention to--it didn't get anything, not even one shovelful of manure. It's doing its best in this 97 degree Arkansas summer heat, and we are getting lots of squash and zucchini out of it (I think squash and zucchini would grow on a four lane highway).



The other gardens--you know, the ones that get showered with attention and get weeded, watered, and manured (is that even a word?)--are doing pretty respectably considering this is our first real garden here.



Anyway, we're pretty happy with the results, and we thought we'd share a little bit of our joy with you.





Also, if you persevere to the end, there is a story in pictures of our not-so-little-baby Sam.

I am desperately awaiting home-grown tomatoes!



Our first broccoli head...well not really our first, those were greedily consumed by our rotten chickens.

Some of the "We Grow Anywhere" zucchini

The cabbage heads are huge! We are thrilled with how they're doing and can't wait to make lacto-fermented saurkraut.

This is the (weedy) cabbage patch. We probably have 30-35 heads.

We planted cucumbers soooo late, but they're doing really well.

Our onions. We have red and white.

EVIDENCE. CRIME SCENE. DO NOT CROSS YELLOW TAPE.

The chickens have excellent taste. As soon as a tomato even thinks about turning yellow, they are johnny-on-the-spot pecking away at it.

By the way, the date on my camera is obviously wrong. It was probably 40 degrees on that date.

Jalapenos.

I don't believe my keyboard has the capability to put a tilda above the "n" in jalapenos, so y'all will just have to pretend it's there.

I think this is a poblano pepper.

Unscathed tomatoes.

We had just picked the collards, squash, banana peppers and zucchini and then I remembered to take pictures, so here the left out veggies are.

Also, we just finished picking green beans. They're doing very well, and we are enjoying them immensely!

Sam -- the Sad, Sleepy Boy.


Meet Sam. Sam is sad. He's sad because he has to take a ...shhh... a nap.

Sam tries. He tries hard. He tries oh-so-hard not to take a nap.

Sam is wearing down. He cannot hold on. It is too hard. The pillow is too soft.

Sam has failed. The job was too hard for this little almost-three-year old. He thinks this job is better for Joey.

Meet Sam. Sam had a good nap. He had a good nap and a change of clothes. Life is better when Sam has a nap.

FOR ALL OF US!