This summer has been an exciting one in our garden. We planted some pumpkin seeds and we have our first pumpkin starting to turn orange; the kids are very excited about it and the prospects of our home grown Jack-o-Lantern come Halloween. In addition we got our first harvest of Blackberries and they are so sweet! We planted two new trees in the Spring: A Peach tree that we look forward to enjoying fruit from in a couple years and an Anna Apple tree. We got two apples off of it in June and the birds got a few as well. We made a small fruit salad with the apples, a few grapes from one of our vines, and a handful of Blackberries. It was really nice knowing that everything we grew ourselves and it all tasted so good. We will have a bumper crop of Pomegranates this fall and, as usual, can not wait.
We have been eating lots and lots of fresh tomatoes. This year I planted three cherry tomatoes (we eat them as fast as they are available), one Early Girl, a Roma, and a new one called Arkansas Traveler (which I like a lot). Soon we will be eating many cucumbers too (D loves them). Lastly, we have a couple of tiny corn, some baby carrots, radishes, and a sweet pepper named Gypsy! Can you tell we love our vegetable garden? : )
In our pond we planted a few new water plants and have had mixed success. The waterlilies have been putting on a nice show for us as well as the hyacinth. We have been working hard on keeping the plants under control as they are prone to taking over if given a chance and we want to keep our pond goldfish happy. I think though that we don't need to worry too much about them, they seem to be quite happy as we now have at least one goldfish baby in there. ; )
Anyway, that just a small glimpse of our garden this year.
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