So, go back in time, 3 months ago in mid-May when Jason told me he didn't want to do a garden this year. I was so upset and angry, (because I had been looking forward to a garden all winter long), and he and I actually got in a small, insignificant fight over it--though it was a fight. Being a red-head, I decided to forget him, I'd do it myself. So, I planted baby red potatoes, tomatoes, beets, carrots, chives, strawberries, peas, green beans, bell peppers, lettuce, summer squash, zuchinni and watermelons in the clay/cement-like soil. So, to my surprise everything is doing very
well and the only thing that doesn't have somthing growing on it yet are the watermelon plants, but they are flowering! Yay! I haven't grown potatoes since we did it as a family, back when I was 8 or 9, so I don't remember much about them. A few of my potato plants died, (I think they got too much water), and I dug them up, and we struck gold!! It was like a treasure hunt! Kinsey got out there with me and I would pull out a shovel-full of dirt and she would squeal and pull out the "tatoes". It was so fun! I remember THAT as a kid--huntin' for tatoes! Anyway, we sat out
there eating peas straight from the pod and we pulled out some pinkie-finger-sized carrots, (they are fingerling carrots, they are supposed to stay small), and we thinned out the beets by pulling the bigger ones out. Anyway, we had a ball and we are eating good tonight! I have about two silver dollar-sized bell peppers on each of my 6 plants and my tomatoes are kicking butt! I didn't think my carrots would make it in this clay soil. They weren't doing very well just last month, but I guess they won the battle. We've eaten two zuchinnis and are about to get a couple of summer squash. I guess I'm so excited that everything is still alive because: A. Jason can just eat dirt! and B. because last month I had basically given up on everything and had told myself that if ANYTHING grew, I was lucky because the soil had never grown anything but
sagebrush. So, the other pictures are of my front flower patch. I have Gladiolas like crazy, (all different colors--this purple color is my favorite!), and the spiky one from my Dahlia plant! Aren't they fun! I love to grow things! Next year will be even better because these plants are loosening up the soil and will be a great compost to amend it! Yay!
So, go back in time, 3 months ago in mid-May when Jason told me he didn't want to do a garden this year. I was so upset and angry, (because I had been looking forward to a garden all winter long), and he and I actually got in a small, insignificant fight over it--though it was a fight. Being a red-head, I decided to forget him, I'd do it myself. So, I planted baby red potatoes, tomatoes, beets, carrots, chives, strawberries, peas, green beans, bell peppers, lettuce, summer squash, zuchinni and watermelons in the clay/cement-like soil. So, to my surprise everything is doing very 
well and the only thing that doesn't have somthing growing on it yet are the watermelon plants, but they are flowering! Yay! I haven't grown potatoes since we did it as a family, back when I was 8 or 9, so I don't remember much about them. A few of my potato plants died, (I think they got too much water), and I dug them up, and we struck gold!! It was like a treasure hunt! Kinsey got out there with me and I would pull out a shovel-full of dirt and she would squeal and pull out the "tatoes". It was so fun! I remember THAT as a kid--huntin' for tatoes! Anyway, we sat out 
there eating peas straight from the pod and we pulled out some pinkie-finger-sized carrots, (they are fingerling carrots, they are supposed to stay small), and we thinned out the beets by pulling the bigger ones out. Anyway, we had a ball and we are eating good tonight! I have about two silver dollar-sized bell peppers on each of my 6 plants and my tomatoes are kicking butt! I didn't think my carrots would make it in this clay soil. They weren't doing very well just last month, but I guess they won the battle. We've eaten two zuchinnis and are about to get a couple of summer squash. I guess I'm so excited that everything is still alive because: A. Jason can just eat dirt! and B. because last month I had basically given up on everything and had told myself that if ANYTHING grew, I was lucky because the soil had never grown anything but 
sagebrush. So, the other pictures are of my front flower patch. I have Gladiolas like crazy, (all different colors--this purple color is my favorite!), and the spiky one from my Dahlia plant! Aren't they fun! I love to grow things! Next year will be even better because these plants are loosening up the soil and will be a great compost to amend it! Yay!
2 comments:
Caitlin, you go girl! Sounds like you have a huge garden! Our couple of tomato plants and one pepper and one squash are looking pretty pathetic these days. I need to take a lesson from you! I really want to do potatoes! I wonder if it's too cold here to do a fall crop? Anyways, that is awesome! Call me and we can hang out!
Oh I kind of totally love that you have a garden and you grew all of that stuff. Thats so awesome and I'm super jealous. I'm also very proud of you for doing it all by yourself. You can do anything. You're like WonderWoman or something!
xoxo
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