Matt's Garden- Big post!



You probably remember this post.  Matt has the green thumb for sure between the two of us.  I always wanted a garden but have never had the motivation or the space.  I have great memories of my mother's garden.  Sitting on the porch while she snapped beans, pulling off raspberries and putting them on your fingertips to eat one at a time.  Burying the poor squirrel that Skipper killed in the corner of the strawberry patch.  Here is what the garden started out as.  Matt borrowed a really nice tiller a guy he works with owns and tilled a 12 x 24 foot area in the sunniest part of the backyard.  We bought some good quality stakes from my old job ECI and started putting it up.  I should say he, I really did very little.  Pretty much watched the baby while he worked.



Chicken wire up- Matt took one if the signs from our wedding-love it.  Our neighbors must think we are nuts.  But let me tell ya, put a garden in and every old person on the block wants to come talk to you about it- we've met so many of our neighbors. 

Charlie supervising

Corn

With so little free time, Matt was literally planting in the dark.  This is him getting some tomatoes in

Night vision style

installing a flagstone/old paver path

Squash

Hot peppers- these are banana

peas

more waiting to go in

This was the corn today- growing so fast!

Sweeeet coooorn

banana peppers already ready to be picked...I think...we don't really know what we're doing

Our first squash blossom- that is the zucchini behind it!

Our first pea

First little baby strawberry

The whole garden- still have room here at the front left- we have cabbage, cantaloupe (I guess I should call it mussmelon) and bell peppers that are still going to go in

aerating the ground so it efficiently takes the water- it's so hot right now, we water after the sun sets otherwise it just evaporates

Wild strawberries out of the yard- was pretty excited, but they were seedy and tasteless

I'm so glad I married someone with a green thumb.  I love fresh produce and it's so expensive. I am so excited that it will come out of my back yard.  I'm thrilled to give Charlie and the kids food that I know where it came from and how it was harvested.  We are going to have so much food.  I would really like to learn how to can.  Another time- hopefully late summer.  I'm sure that will be another hilarious post, lets hope I don't blow up the kitchen.  Otherwise it's BLTs and zucchini bread for the rest of the summer!

Zucchini anyone?  We're going to have tons!!

Some un-proffessionals

Matt painting some of the signs

Matt's sister doing my hair

It was this messy, kinda half up do with my broach in it, I loved my hair