I'm Back!!!!

Wow! I cant believe its planting time again! So to catch you all up quickly as to why I did not have any more posts last year, I found out I was pregnant! I didn't get to do everything I wanted to do while pregnant. We had a little baby girl named Makenna, born Jan 20th 2012!
Our garden last year did not make it :(, we had ants move in and the would not go away! They ate everything BUT my Cheyenne peppers which my husband chopped up to me not thinking clearly when I said I HAD to have them! After I bought and planted them and they started to produce, my mind cleared and I asked him why he let me plant them because I had no reason to have them! I had no idea what to use them for and being pregnant I didnt want them so I did nothing with them. The color of red was pretty but thats all I did with them was looked at them!
Okay this year has started and our ground is tilled and we already have lettuce, onions, purple cabbage, collie flower and tomatoes planted.
 We already learned a lesson this year!  Dont believe the weather man!!! It dropped in temps that tomatoes do not like......I have one perfect tomato plant out of 12......the others I am waiting to see if they will make a come back :( if not do you think I should send the dead ones to the weather man?!?!?!?! The plants look so sad, wilted leaves just hanging there!
I still have carrots to get into the ground and in April I will plant more veggies!
I also learned that tomatoes need calcium! Milk does the body good!!! Ok do not pour milk on your tomato plants, although maybe it would work Ill have to do some research on that!
I did find a product that has calcium in it! Ill post pictures of it and of the garden soon!
Our new thing that Im trying to do is Chickens!!! I have pestered my mom and dad (they have 2 acres) to do chickens for the last 3 years and finally mom has agreed to let dad and I go on this adventure! We bought to chicken books and are reading like crazy and planing on the right chicken coop for us! I will post pictures as soon as we get started......My parents and my little family are going up to Kansas for a couple of days and when we get back, Dad and I will get started! My oldest girl is so excited and keeps asking her papaw to get baby chickens for her! She is now 2 1/2 and I think this will be fun for her!
Well I have to go baby is waking up!
Remember Pictures are coming soon!!!

Singing the weed and bugs blues!!!

Man it has been crazy around here! I hope you are all well in your neck of the woods!

My garden has been ate on, rained on, flooded thru and almost up rooted! I already have plans for next year to fix my drainage problems! My Garden has started to really sprout and its starting to show some veggies!!! Ok now as for bugs! I know there are things that are home remedies lik spraying ur plants with dawn and water solutions but I went to the home improvement store and picked up some stuff.

This is what I got....

Organic miracle grow

I hate weeds already so Im trying this!

all I can say is good bye buggies!
this stuff works well!!


So I am de weeding the garden and then adding the weed prevention and then covering it with mulch! I just started this so we shall see if it will work or not!

ok picture time!!

tomatoes!

snap peas

mixing mulch

the lettuce looks so green with red mulch

cooking  bacon on the grill!

 

strawberries with mulch.

onions, lettuce and purple cabbage all mulched up!

potatoes with flowers!

cucumber 

garlic

purple cabbage

bell peppers with buds

ok I sure hope to post more soon! 

Send your garden pictures in!!! I want to see!

Take care and be safe!

City Girl!

Hello Mr.Sunshine! So Good to see you again!

It has been a crazy week for me! Sorry that I am just now getting to posting pictures! I spent about 2 hours fighting mud to get the weeds out of my garden.....Lets just say some weeds won! One part of my garden I sank to my ankle in mud! I need some pretty mud boots...City boy said he could get me yellow ones.......my answer to that was "excuse me I don't think so!" I want some that fit my personality and Yellow mens rubber mud boots does not do it for me! No way , naw , and heck no , over my dead body will I wear yellow mens rubber mud boots!!!
Sorry back to the story at hand! The garden is so mushy for all the rain we got the last 1 1/2 weeks!
It was so nice to be in the garden today, It was so pretty and the garden looks so green, I ran into the house and grabbed the camera to show you how green it all was!!!
I Just love love love this weather!!!
So who else has their Veggie Garden going? Send me Pictures and Ill post your's!
Oh my next post will be about bugs!!! Ill try and post it by the end of the this week!
Ok Picture time!!!

Tomato blooms

Pepper blooms

my herbs

corn

corn

Beans

Green beans

Potatoes

Purple Cabbage

onions

Lettuce

Peas

Snow peas

Cucumbers 

Garlic

Black berries

White grapes

Purple Grapes

Strawberries

Peppers

My Rhubarb!