In Balance With Nature....

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Planting is done!

Whew, we finally got everything in the ground last week and it is all blowing up already! We can barely keep up with the lettuce bed, cabbage and the potatoes are huge! We already have broccoli heading up!
We have 20 tomato plants and in between them we planted Basil (makes the tomatoes taste better and keeps bugs off) and other herbs like parsley and dill.
We have 10 watermellon plants, 4 different varieties, and several pumpkins and Okra in this row that is mounded up and covered in plastic to keep it wet and warm.
We are now just watering and waiting to start Picking! Thankfully we have some rain barrels that we collected rain water off moms garage and that has been a life saver the last few days since is is 80 degrees and DRY! We will need to get 5 or so more barrels to get us through the summer. Its amazing how fast a 55 gallon barrel fills up in 10 minutes of rain. We feel like w are wasting it when they overflow!
We will keep updating as it grows!
Oh and a pic of the pups... dont want to leave them out!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Don't those two know it's summer and snuggling is for the winter months? They are incredibly sweet though!