Start of the 2011 Vegetable Garden Season

This afternoon I planted peas, onion sets, shallots, cauliflower plants and broccoli plants.

In the fall I had gathered the neighbor's leaves and covered the vegetable garden with them. Today I raked the leaves aside and dug to prep the soil. It was very wet and easy to turn. There were TONS of prize winning worms too! I just planted my stuff and covered everything back up with the leaves. The bottom layer of the leaves had broken down and has made a nice compost for the garden. Looking forward to things popping up!

I'm behind in my tomato and pepper seed starting. I'll be working on that this week too.

Tomato Harvest 2010

Our tomato harvest was plentiful. Every week or so we got about this much!

This was the last big harvest of the summer.

Zach's great pumpkin

In March of 2010 Zach planted pumpkins in random places around the yard. Mostly they ended up in my planters that surround our front porch. I let one plant live and it turned out to be the biggest punpkin we got!

Here is what the front yard looked like all summer with the magnificant pumkin growing out of the bricks.

And here is the pumpkin getting ready to become a pumpkin pie!

Summer Dinner

Over the summer I made this a lot. Tomatoes and zuccini from the garden were sauted with olive oil and basil from the garden. Then I mixed it all together with pasta. Mmmmm

Pot Gardening

Here is my garden for the year:

Since we don't have the proper area cleared and ready for a garden, I planted all my tomato and pepper plants in pots this year.

The kids helped.

Here is Zach's pumpkin plant that he planted in February at our apartment complex. Just right there next to the building. We transplanted it to our yard. I know its in the grass and rocks; but squashes like adversity, right?

I also broke down and let the kids pick flowers to plant in our planters in the front yard. Lots of plants in a little soil. We'll see how they do!

Two Days

Above is a pic of yesterday and below is this morning.

Here is the progress our basil is making.

And for the latest development we have our first pepper germination-Jalapenos.

And Oregano!

Making Progress

I can't believe how quickly everything is growing. I feel like I am literally watching them grow!