It's seriously fall already? I have so many summer pics to post. Everyone else is on to Halloween, not me. I'm going to play catch up as much as I can.
Our garden had some hits and misses this year. We started a little late and it just seemed like it was taking forever for anything to grow. Most of it grew eventually. Some things grew a little too much. Like our spinach as you'll see. I have more pics of things from the fall like tomatoes that actually turned red and the crazy amount of beans and blueberries we had. I just don't want to wait for the camera battery to charge or I may never finish this post. So anyway, this was our garden at the biginning... Sorry for the dark pictures, I took them when the kids were in bed.
This tree isn't really a vegetable (believe it or not), it's not even a fruit tree but it's one of my favorite trees EVER! It's a Cercidiphyllum Japonicum. Don't quote me on the spelling. I love the shape and the best part is when the leaves start to turn colors they smell like burnt sugar. Seriously, it's heavenly to walk by this tree. It's not the best location and I'm surprised it lived but there it is.
This is our Broccoli and Cauliflower. We were pretty good at weeding in the beginning. Not so much later.
This is the Spinach. This is what spinach is supposed to look like. As you scroll down you will see what it's not supposed to look like. There are tomatoe plants in the back there. They stayed at that size for like 3 months. It was very sad. I thought they'd never grow.
Landon and I were so proud of ourselves because we planted seeds and plants actually came up... for the most part. This is a squash
This is the other Sqaush that did much better than the other until it mysteriously died about a month ago. It sat there with one flower and than it turned a funny color. Not really sure what that was about.
Okay, these next pictures are the later pictures like maybe august. I must have snuck out during naptime to get pictures during the day.
Yay! the tomatoes finally grew and produced quite a bit of fruit. The only problem was that some disgusting looking wormy things got to them and I wouldn't touch them. So, I was proud of my beautiful red fruit but I didn't get to eat very many. The ones I did have were very yummy.
More tomatoe pics. I was so happy when they finally needed cages.
Okay the little scraggly things in front between the weeds, those are carrots. They were delicious but there weren't very many. In the back you can see what spinach is NOT supposed to look like. We obviously let it go and it grew like crazy. I stopped watering because I was mad at it and it still lived on.
We got a got a few good broccoli and I think one good cauliflower. The slugs REALLY like them. The pretty yellow flower is what broccoli looks like when you let it go to seed.
Yum! We loved the strawberries. We didn't get as many as I thought we would. I wonder if it 's because there were to many dandelions in there.
That's the strawberry and weed patch.
Here's the whole side garden spot. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun. I'm not sure that it was worth it economically but I'm glad we did it. If anything it was a learning experience.
This is the Spinach. This is what spinach is supposed to look like. As you scroll down you will see what it's not supposed to look like. There are tomatoe plants in the back there. They stayed at that size for like 3 months. It was very sad. I thought they'd never grow.
This is the other Sqaush that did much better than the other until it mysteriously died about a month ago. It sat there with one flower and than it turned a funny color. Not really sure what that was about.
Yay! the tomatoes finally grew and produced quite a bit of fruit. The only problem was that some disgusting looking wormy things got to them and I wouldn't touch them. So, I was proud of my beautiful red fruit but I didn't get to eat very many. The ones I did have were very yummy. 
More tomatoe pics. I was so happy when they finally needed cages.
Okay the little scraggly things in front between the weeds, those are carrots. They were delicious but there weren't very many. In the back you can see what spinach is NOT supposed to look like. We obviously let it go and it grew like crazy. I stopped watering because I was mad at it and it still lived on.
We got a got a few good broccoli and I think one good cauliflower. The slugs REALLY like them. The pretty yellow flower is what broccoli looks like when you let it go to seed.
That's the strawberry and weed patch.
Here's the whole side garden spot. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun. I'm not sure that it was worth it economically but I'm glad we did it. If anything it was a learning experience.
