Thursday, July 21, 2011

A Bit of Awesomeness Growing in the Garden

View of the left half of the garden
Our tomatoes and green peppers
Our garden has gotten huge in the past few weeks.  Even though we have been ravaged with all kinds of bugs and blight on the tomatoes and green peppers things seem to pulling through enough that we are still getting a lot of fruit/vegetables on them.  I think out beans are about done, but we were able to can 25 pints worth!  Now we are just waiting for all the peppers and tomatoes to finish coming on.  Our mutant marigolds have finally started getting flowers on them, which is exciting.  Some how we missed the part on the package that said they grow to be 18"-24" high.  We thought we were buying your typical everyday 5" high marigolds until they kept growing and growing and growing.  They are now   averaging 24"-36" and are taller than any of our other plants.  Who knew marigolds did that?
Mutant Marigolds

These green peppers make Ryan VERY excited,
he LOVES green peppers



View of the whole garden plot


Our first harvest yay!!

Our green beans pre-canner stage

19 beautiful pints of canned green beans.
Planted, grown, canned, and to be eaten by us!

2 comments:

  1. Wow that is awesome! I wish I knew how to can things.

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  2. That really is awesome guys, holy smokes! What a step up from gardening in pots! That is so cool that you had enough beans that you could can them too, congratulations!

    Also, those pictures of Rachel are just adorable. I love that your girls are such good friends.
    -Jill

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