Yes, it has been a loong time since I’ve posted- sorry about that!

I’ve had quite a number of blog requests, an update on our garden being one of them. Things in our garden are going GREAT this year- we think it’s the weekly addition of our compost tea (which we call poop tea because that’s what it smells like). Also, last year we made notes on what seemed to grow well up here and what didn’t, so we have less variety. We also connected the 2 squares we had last year so we now have more space

Here’s a garden overview:

In the first square we have lettuce (4 types), radishes (2 types) and herbs.

The top 3 rows are all lettuce (not quite sure what we were thinking on that one).

As for herbs we have curly and flat parsley, summer savory, cilantro, marjoram and basil.

The next square is all tomato plants (13 total). We have a number of heirloom plants from the farmers market (Juliet, Sun Gold, Green Zebra, Paul Roberson and some others I can’t remember) as well as Roma and Beefsteak.

We have a few tomatoes coming in and all of the plants have lots of flowers:

In the final square we have peaches n’ cream corn, green beans, cucumber, striped eggplant, peppers (5 varieties of both spicy and sweet), icicle radishes (can you tell BR and I have a strange love of radishes?)  and carrots.

Our cucumber plant is especially taking off:

There are also a few things that wouldn’t fit in the garden, like mint (for cocktails, very important stuff), rosemary and oregano.

And we moved our strawberries from last year to a small patch in the back of our yard. This year they are actually producing

And finally, BR and I stumbled upon some cascade hops and couldn’t pass them by. They are in a large pot behind the house…

And are currently growing up a piece of twine that is attached to the roof.

We also have copious amounts of impatiens (my fave!):

And last but not least, Peggy requested a photo of the recent birthday boy with his birthday gift- a charcoal grill. Here he is!

More posts to come…maybe Belize next?